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: Scholarly Rigor and Intellectual Orthodoxy
William Baude, Erwin Chemerinsky, Joshua Kleinfeld, Thomas Lee
21st Annual Federalist Society Faculty Conference
This panel will focus on questions of academic rigor and intellectual orthodoxy in modern American...
Panel: The Revived Debate About Antitrust
Thomas Carlton Arthur, Einer Elhauge, Harry First, Justin (Gus) Hurwitz
21st Annual Federalist Society Faculty Conference
There have been renewed challenges to the Chicago School framework for antitrust law. Some have...
Panel: Social Media and Freedom of Speech
Richard A. Epstein, Justin (Gus) Hurwitz, J.S. Nelson, Hannibal Travis, Aaron Wright
21st Annual Federalist Society Faculty Conference
Over the past year, there have been a number of discussions about social media and...
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, Christina M. Mulligan, Ryan Williams, Vicki C. Jackson, Lee Liberman Otis
21st Annual Federalist Society Faculty Conference
Conventional wisdom holds that the original meaning of the "due process of law," as used...
Stare Decisis: What Is Stare Decisis? [No. 86]
Roger Pilon
Short video featuring Roger Pilon
The Latin term “stare decisis” may be translated literally as “to stand by decided matters.”...
Tariffs: Where Does the President Get His Power? [POLICYbrief]
Michael Barone
Short video featuring Michael Barone
Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution grants Congress the power "To regulate Commerce...
Panel 2: The Tech Titans' Duties to Assist the Government
Matthew R. A. Heiman, Matthew G. Olsen, Theodore W. Ullyot, John C. Yoo
Tech Titans and National Security: West Coast Edition
It is difficult to imagine any criminal acts, espionage, or terrorism that does not leave...
Filibusters: History, Purpose, & Controversy [POLICYbrief]
Mike S. Lee
Short video featuring Mike Lee
In the 1939 classic Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, the fictional Senator Jefferson Smith filibusters...