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...
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...
Panel: Who's Afraid of Substantive Due Process?: Original Meaning and the Due Process of Law
Randy E. Barnett, Nathan Chapman, John C. Harrison, Vicki C. Jackson, Christina M. Mulligan, Lee Liberman Otis, Ryan Williams
21st Annual Federalist Society Faculty Conference
Conventional wisdom holds that the original meaning of the "due process of law," as used...
Supreme Court Denies Review of Constitutional Challenge to CFPB
Sam Kazman
On Jan. 14 the Supreme Court denied the cert petition in State National Bank of...
DOJ Filing Emergency Petition on Census Citizenship Question
John S. Baker
Criminal Law Practice Group
The inclusion of the citizenship question on the 2020 census remains both uncertain and controversial. ...
Necessary & Proper Episode 34: The New Congress and Congressional Oversight
Steve Castor, John C. Yoo, Amanda H. Neely
On December 11, 2018, the Federalist Society's Capitol Hill Chapter and Article I Initiative cosponsored...
Courthouse Steps Oral Argument: Knick v. Township of Scott, Pennsylvania
James S. Burling
The Supreme Court will hear reargument in Knick v. Township of Scott, Pennsylvania on January...
Criminal and Civil Enforcement of Environmental Laws
John Irving
This Teleforum will provide an overview of criminal and civil enforcement provisions of environmental laws...
Courthouse Steps Oral Argument: Franchise Tax Board of California v. Hyatt: Reviving Sister-State Sovereign Immunity
Stephen E. Sachs
A Teleforum Call Sponsored by the Federalism & Separation of Powers Practice Group
After Gilbert Hyatt, the petitioner, moved to Nevada he was investigated by the Franchise Tax...
Dispatches from the Patent Wars: The High-Stakes Battle Between Qualcomm and Apple
Jonathan Barnett, Thomas F. Cotter, Kristen Osenga
A Teleforum Sponsored by the Intellectual Property Practice Group
American patent law has witnessed a number of high-profile patent wars throughout history and today...