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.
What Were the Founders' Views of Citizenship?
Elle Rogers Bernstein, Richard Brookhiser, Jud Campbell, Thomas Lee
The Founders Gave Us the Tools Series
In this Federalist Society America250 series, experts analyze modern legal and policy debates through the...
Speech and Censorship in the Age of Algorithms
Jud Campbell, John Ehrett, Erik S. Jaffe, Darpana Sheth Nunziata
As government actors and private litigants seek to regulate AI, social media, online obscenity, and...
Rupe Debate: Resolved: Originalism Should Embrace the General Law
Jud Campbell, Julia D. Mahoney, Lawrence Solum
6th Annual UVA Originalism Symposium
How should textualists search for the original meaning of laws when the text alone does...
Young Legal Scholars Paper Presentations
Sadie Rose Blanchard, Jud Campbell, Benjamin Chen, Tara Leigh Grove, Robert Leider, Tyler B. Lindley, Robert T. Miller, Christina M. Mulligan, Luke J. Schumacher, Brian Gary Slocum, Keith E. Whittington
Featuring: Prof. Sadie Blanchard, "Adjudicating ESG Reputation," Associate Professor of Law, Notre Dame Law School...
Young Legal Scholars Paper Presentations
Sadie Rose Blanchard, Jud Campbell, Benjamin Chen, Tara Leigh Grove, Robert Leider, Tyler B. Lindley, Robert T. Miller, Luke J. Schumacher, Brian Gary Slocum, Keith E. Whittington, Christina M. Mulligan
Featuring: Prof. Sadie Blanchard, "Adjudicating ESG Reputation," Associate Professor of Law, Notre Dame Law School...
Panel IV: Does Federalism Lead to a More United or Disunited Democracy?
Jud Campbell, Michael S. Greve, Andrew Oldham, Ilya Somin
2023 National Student Symposium
The United States is constitutionally not one, but fifty-one, democracies. How can they all fit...
Panel IV: Does Federalism Lead to a More United or Disunited Democracy?
Jud Campbell, Michael S. Greve, Andrew Oldham, Ilya Somin
2023 National Student Symposium
The United States is constitutionally not one, but fifty-one, democracies. How can they all fit...
The State of the Research on the Privileges or Immunities Clause
Jud Campbell, Lawrence Lessig, Ilan Wurman
Harvard Student Chapter
Event Video: The State of the Research on the Privileges or Immunities Clause
Young Legal Scholars Paper Presentations
Sadie Rose Blanchard, Jud Campbell, Katherine Mims Crocker, Richard A. Epstein, Jeffrey Hetzel, Stephen E. Sachs, Lorianne Updike Toler
23rd Annual Federalist Society Faculty Conference
Young Legal Scholars Paper Presentations3:00pm - 5:00pm Featuring: Sadie Blanchard, Notre Dame Law School: “Contracts...
Panel 1: The Anti-Federalists at the Founding
John K. Bush, Jud Campbell, Lisa Ezell, Michelle Kundmueller, Roger Pilon, Michael B. Rappaport, Justin James Gilio
2020 Annual Western Chapters Conference
On January 25, 2020, the Federalist Society hosted its annual Western Chapters Conference at the...