Michael Schill

Michael Schill
17th President of Northwestern University
Incumbent
Assumed office
September 12, 2022
Preceded byMorton O. Schapiro
18th President of the University of Oregon
In office
July 1, 2015 – August 20, 2022
Preceded byMichael R. Gottfredson
Succeeded byKarl Scholz
Personal details
Born (1958-09-30) September 30, 1958 (age 66)
Schenectady, New York, U.S.
EducationPrinceton 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]

  1. ^ "Michael H. Schill named next president of Northwestern". news.northwestern.edu. Retrieved 2022-08-11.
  2. ^ "MICHAEL H. SCHILL – President-elect – Northwestern University" (PDF). Northwestern University. Retrieved 2023-03-07.
  3. ^ "Michael Schill faculty page, University of Chicago Law School" Archived 2013-01-05 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ "Michael H. Schill | University of Chicago Law School". www.law.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2022-08-17.