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.
Administrative Law and Regulation: What Is the Future of Administrative Law?
Paul D. Clement, Cary Coglianese, Philip A. Hamburger, Kathryn Kimball Mizelle, Neomi Rao
2024 National Lawyers Convention
The Supreme Court's latest term was one of its most significant for administrative law. The...
Administrative Law and Regulation: What Is the Future of Administrative Law?
Paul D. Clement, Cary Coglianese, Philip A. Hamburger, Kathryn Kimball Mizelle, Neomi Rao
2024 National Lawyers Convention
The Supreme Court's latest term was one of its most significant for administrative law. The...
Chevron Under Review: Courthouse Steps Preview: Loper Bright & Relentless
John F. Duffy, Philip A. Hamburger, Kristin E. Hickman, Stephen Alexander Vaden
Chevron v. NRDC (1984) and subsequent precedents held that courts should defer to agency interpretations...
Chevron Under Review: Courthouse Steps Preview: Loper Bright & Relentless
John F. Duffy, Philip A. Hamburger, Kristin E. Hickman, Stephen Alexander Vaden
Chevron v. NRDC (1984) and subsequent precedents held that courts should defer to agency interpretations...
Luncheon Address & Panel: Administrative State on the Brink?
Philip A. Hamburger, Sally Katzen, Neomi Rao
Tenth Annual Executive Branch Review
Over the past 85 years the administrative state has been a dominant feature in the...
Textual Challenges of Section 230
Mary Anne Franks, Philip A. Hamburger, Gregory G. Katsas, Eugene Volokh
Freedom of Thought Six-Part Zoom Webinar Series: Part 2
This panel addressed the textual questions of §230: is the statute correctly understood to permit...
Textual Challenges of Section 230
Mary Anne Franks, Philip A. Hamburger, Gregory G. Katsas, Eugene Volokh
Freedom of Thought Six-Part Zoom Webinar Series: Part 2
This panel addressed the textual questions of §230: is the statute correctly understood to permit...
Necessary & Proper Episode 67: Non-Delegation? Or No Divesting? Art. I, Sec. 1 at the Founding and Today
Nicholas Bagley, Philip A. Hamburger, Jenn L. Mascott, Nicholas R. Parrillo, Neomi Rao
On May 17, as part of their annual Executive Branch Review Conference, the Federalist Society's...
Non-Delegation? Or No Divesting? Art. I, Sec. 1 at the Founding and Today
Nicholas Bagley, Philip A. Hamburger, Jenn L. Mascott, Nicholas R. Parrillo, Neomi Rao
Administrative Law & Regulation and Federalism & Separation of Powers Practice Groups
Whether as the result of hyper-partisanship or as a residue of the constitutional design for...
Young Legal Scholars Paper Presentations
Christian R. Burset, Mihailis E. Diamantis, Sean J. Griffith, Tara Leigh Grove, Michael T. Morley, Lawrence Solum, Ryan Williams, Ilan Wurman, Philip A. Hamburger
22nd Annual Federalist Society Faculty Conference
On January 3-4, 2020, the Federalist Society hosted its 22nd annual Faculty Conference at the...