Tara Leigh Grove is the Vinson & Elkins Chair in Law at the University of Texas School of Law. Grove graduated summa cum laude from Duke University and magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where she served as the Supreme Court Chair of the Harvard Law Review. Grove clerked for Judge Emilio Garza on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and then spent four years as an attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Appellate Staff, where she argued fifteen cases in the courts of appeals.
Grove’s research focuses on the federal judiciary, interpretive theory, and the constitutional separation of powers. She has published with such prestigious law journals as the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, the Columbia Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the New York University Law Review, the University of Chicago Law Review, the Virginia Law Review, the Texas Law Review, the Cornell Law Review, the Northwestern University Law Review, and the Vanderbilt Law Review. Grove has received awards for both her research and her teaching.
In 2021, Grove served on the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States, a bipartisan commission created by President Biden and charged with examining proposals for Supreme Court reform. Since 2022, Grove has worked on the Princeton Initiative on Reclaiming the Constitutional Powers of Congress, which brings together former members of Congress, political scientists, and law professors. Grove serves as the Co-Chair of the section on the Appointments Process for the Princeton Initiative. Grove is a co-author of Low & Jeffries' Federal Courts and the Law of Federal-State Relations, a leading federal courts casebook, and she has served as the Chair of the Federal Courts Section of the Association of American Law Schools. Grove has been a visiting professor at both Harvard Law School and Northwestern Pritzker School of Law.
Young Legal Scholars Paper Presentations
Lawrence Alexander, Vincent Buccola, Paul Crane, Richard A. Epstein, Jenn L. Mascott, Lance Sorenson, Lael Weinberger, Ilan Wurman
21st Annual Federalist Society Faculty Conference
On January 3, 2019, the Federalist Society hosted the Young Legal Scholars Paper Presentations. The...
Enforcing Patents for Bunch O Balloons
Josh Malone, Adam Mossoff, Ilan Wurman, Melissa Brand, Saurabh Vishnubhakat
Regulatory Transparency Project's Fourth Branch Video
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Innovation in the US Patent System
Josh Malone, Adam Mossoff, Melissa Brand, Ilan Wurman, Saurabh Vishnubhakat
Regulatory Transparency Project's Fourth Branch Video
How does the US patent system affect inventors and innovators? Does the patent system promote...
A Debt Against the Living: An Introduction to Originalism
Michael W. McConnell, Ilan Wurman
Practice Groups Teleforum
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Young Legal Scholars Paper Presentations
Amy Coney Barrett, Richard A. Epstein, Daniel Hemel, Ryan T. Holte, Aaron Nielson, Stephen E. Sachs, Christopher Seaman, Christopher J. Walker, Ilan Wurman
19th Annual Faculty Conference
This panel was held on January 5, 2017 during the 19th Annual Faculty Conference in...
Young Legal Scholars Paper Presentations
Amy Coney Barrett, Richard A. Epstein, Daniel Hemel, Ryan T. Holte, Aaron Nielson, Stephen E. Sachs, Christopher Seaman, Christopher J. Walker, Ilan Wurman
19th Annual Faculty Conference
This panel was held on January 5, 2017 during the 19th Annual Faculty Conference in...
Student Perspectives on Intellectual Diversity in Academia
Jud Campbell, Sohan Dasgupta, Jonathan Mondel, Roland Nadler, Ilan Wurman
Stanford Intellectual Diversity Conference
The proper education of America’s youth is arguably the most important social responsibility the university...
Student Perspectives on Intellectual Diversity in Academia
Jud Campbell, Sohan Dasgupta, Jonathan Mondel, Roland Nadler, Ilan Wurman
Stanford Intellectual Diversity Conference
The proper education of America’s youth is arguably the most important social responsibility the university...
Young Legal Scholars Paper Presentations
Tara Leigh Grove, Jeremy Kidd, Randy J. Kozel, Thomas Lee, James T. Lindgren, Jeffrey Pojanowski, Saikrishna Prakash, Ozan Varol, Ilan Wurman
18th Annual Faculty Conference
This panel was part of the 18th Annual Federalist Society Faculty Conference held on January...
Young Legal Scholars Paper Presentations
Tara Leigh Grove, Jeremy Kidd, Randy J. Kozel, Thomas Lee, James T. Lindgren, Jeffrey Pojanowski, Saikrishna Prakash, Ozan Varol, Ilan Wurman
18th Annual Faculty Conference
This panel was part of the 18th Annual Federalist Society Faculty Conference held on January...