Elizabeth Pyjov

Adjunct Professor

Elizabeth Pyjov is a law professor at Loyola University Chicago School of Law and a business school professor at the Quinlan School of Business.

She is also a theologian, lawyer, educator, and legal scholar who focuses on integrating compassion into the legal profession. She holds three Harvard degrees — from Harvard College, Harvard Law School, and Harvard Divinity School — and studied neuroscience and the pedagogy of compassion at Stanford Medical School, where she was Editor-in-chief of Compassion Journal.

She has worked with the Library of Congress, The Carlyle Group, Novartis, Columbia Law School, Deutsche Bank, Tory Burch, the New York State Bar Association, the New York State Supreme Court, Perkins Coie, Ropes & Gray, and Weil Gotshal. She has also worked with universities including Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, and NYU Medical School. Through her teaching and work on compassionate leadership, she has reached more than 100,000 professionals and students. She hosts the Lawyer Leadership Summit in Italy which brings together leaders with the goal of making the profession more compassionate.