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.
Showcase Panel II: Whither Precedent?
Tara Leigh Grove, Randy J. Kozel, Gary Lawson, John O. McGinnis, William H. Pryor
2023 National Lawyers Convention
No one maintains that the Court has always and forever been originalist in its orientation....
Showcase Panel II: Whither Precedent?
Tara Leigh Grove, Randy J. Kozel, Gary Lawson, John O. McGinnis, William H. Pryor
2023 National Lawyers Convention
No one maintains that the Court has always and forever been originalist in its orientation....
Panel: Originalism and Stare Decisis
Randy E. Barnett, Randy J. Kozel, John O. McGinnis, Lee Liberman Otis, Eugene B. Meyer
22nd Annual Federalist Society Faculty Conference
On January 3-4, 2020, the Federalist Society hosted its 22nd annual Faculty Conference at the...
Panel: Originalism and Stare Decisis
Randy E. Barnett, Randy J. Kozel, John O. McGinnis, Eugene B. Meyer, Lee Liberman Otis
22nd Annual Federalist Society Faculty Conference
On January 3-4, 2020, the Federalist Society hosted its 22nd annual Faculty Conference at the...
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Liberty Month Revisited: Stare Decisis and the Separation of Powers
This month we are sharing a selection of paired pieces from The Federalist Society's Liberty...
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...
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"Stare Decisis" and the Separation of Power
Stare decisis makes it harder for judges to change the law. The principle, which captures...
Young Legal Scholars Paper Presentations
Erin M. Hawley, Josh Hawley, Daniel B. Kelly, Randy J. Kozel, James T. Lindgren, Michael W. McConnell, Minor Myers, Eugene Volokh
15th Annual Faculty Conference
On January 4, 2013, at the 15th Annual Faculty Conference in New Orleans, LA, the...
Young Legal Scholars Paper Presentations
Erin M. Hawley, Josh Hawley, Daniel B. Kelly, Randy J. Kozel, James T. Lindgren, Michael W. McConnell, Minor Myers, Eugene Volokh
15th Annual Faculty Conference
On January 4, 2013, at the 15th Annual Faculty Conference in New Orleans, LA, the...