Michael Schill | |
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17th President of Northwestern University | |
Assumed office September 12, 2022 | |
Preceded by | Morton O. Schapiro |
18th President of the University of Oregon | |
In office July 1, 2015 โ August 20, 2022 | |
Preceded by | Michael R. Gottfredson |
Succeeded by | Karl Scholz |
Personal details | |
Born | Schenectady, New York, U.S. | September 30, 1958
Education | Princeton University (BA) Yale University (JD) |
Michael Harry Schill (born September 30, 1958) is an American legal scholar and academic administrator. He has been serving as the 17th and current president of Northwestern University since September 2022.[1] Schill previously served as the 18th president of the University of Oregon from 2015 to 2022, dean of the University of Chicago Law School from 2009 to 2015, and dean of the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law from 2004 to 2009.[2]
Schill is the author of three books and numerous articles,[3] with foci of scholarship in the areas of real estate, housing policy, and discrimination in the housing market. His casebook, Property, co-authored with Jesse Dukeminier, James Krier, Greg Alexander, and Lior Strahilevitz, is a best-selling casebook used in American law schools.[4]