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.
Panel V: Is Judicial Review Democratic?
Tara Leigh Grove, James C. Ho, Lawrence Sager, Keith E. Whittington
2023 National Student Symposium
Judicial Review has been criticized throughout American history as undemocratic, creating what has been known...
Showcase Panel I: The Legal Profession and Constitutional Culture
Patrick J. Bumatay, Jamal Greene, Tara Leigh Grove, Ashley Keller, John O. McGinnis
2022 National Lawyers Convention
Lawyers and judges play an important role in a democratic republic like the United States. ...
Showcase Panel I: The Legal Profession and Constitutional Culture
Patrick J. Bumatay, Jamal Greene, Tara Leigh Grove, Ashley Keller, John O. McGinnis
2022 National Lawyers Convention
Lawyers and judges play an important role in a democratic republic like the United States. ...
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...
Young Legal Scholars Paper Presentations
Christian R. Burset, Mihailis E. Diamantis, Sean J. Griffith, Tara Leigh Grove, Philip A. Hamburger, Michael T. Morley, Lawrence Solum, Ryan Williams, Ilan Wurman
22nd Annual Federalist Society Faculty Conference
On January 3-4, 2020, the Federalist Society hosted its 22nd annual Faculty Conference at the...
Panel: Is Everything Political?
Christian R. Burset, Guy-Uriel Charles, Tara Leigh Grove, Joshua Kleinfeld, Stephen E. Sachs
22nd Annual Federalist Society Faculty Conference
On January 3-4, 2020, the Federalist Society hosted its 22nd annual Faculty Conference at the...
Panel: Is Everything Political?
Christian R. Burset, Guy-Uriel Charles, Tara Leigh Grove, Joshua Kleinfeld, Stephen E. Sachs
22nd Annual Federalist Society Faculty Conference
On January 3-4, 2020, the Federalist Society hosted its 22nd annual Faculty Conference at the...
Showcase Panel IV: Originalism and Precedent
Tara Leigh Grove, Bernadette Meyler, Michael Stokes Paulsen, Neomi Rao, Lawrence Solum
2019 National Lawyers Convention
On November 16, 2019, the Federalist Society hosted the fourth showcase panel of the 2019...
Showcase Panel IV: Originalism and Precedent
Tara Leigh Grove, Bernadette Meyler, Michael Stokes Paulsen, Neomi Rao, Lawrence Solum
2019 National Lawyers Convention
On November 16, 2019, the Federalist Society hosted the fourth showcase panel of the 2019...
Luncheon Debate: Resolved: The Supreme Court Should Overrule Qualified Immunity
William Baude, Tara Leigh Grove, Christopher J. Walker
21st Annual Federalist Society Faculty Conference
On January 3, 2019, the Federalist Society hosted a luncheon debate on qualified immunity. The...