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.
Welcome & Panel I: The Executive Power to Not Enforce the Law
Tara Leigh Grove, John C. Harrison, Gillian E. Metzger, Lee Liberman Otis, Zachary Price, Daniel B. Rodriguez, Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz
17th Annual Faculty Conference
This panel was part of the 17th Annual Federalist Society Faculty Conference held on January...
Welcome & Panel I: The Executive Power to Not Enforce the Law
Tara Leigh Grove, John C. Harrison, Gillian E. Metzger, Lee Liberman Otis, Zachary Price, Daniel B. Rodriguez, Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz
17th Annual Faculty Conference
This panel was part of the 17th Annual Federalist Society Faculty Conference held on January...
The Criminalization of Politics
Todd P. Graves, Edward T. Kang, John G. Malcolm, John C. Richter
Criminal Law & Procedure Practice Group
What actions are political and what actions are criminal? Where should prosecutors and courts draw...
The Criminalization of Politics
Todd P. Graves, Edward T. Kang, John G. Malcolm, John C. Richter
Criminal Law & Procedure Practice Group
What actions are political and what actions are criminal? Where should prosecutors and courts draw...
Magna Carta: Muse & Mentor
Short Video about the Magna Carta: Muse & Mentor Exhibition
The Library of Congress celebrates the 800th anniversary of the first issue of Magna Carta...
Luncheon and Keynote Address by Richard Epstein
Richard A. Epstein, Dean Reuter
Patents and Innovation: Addressing Current Issues
Prof. Richard Epstein delivered the Keynote Address during a conference titled "Patents and Innovation: Addressing Current...
Luncheon and Keynote Address by Richard Epstein
Richard A. Epstein, Dean Reuter
Patents and Innovation: Addressing Current Issues
Prof. Richard Epstein delivered the Keynote Address during a conference titled "Patents and Innovation: Addressing Current...
Balancing Patent Rights and Litigation Abuses
F. Scott Kieff, Adam Mossoff, Noah Joshua Phillips, Dean Reuter
Patents and Innovation: Addressing Current Issues
Policy makers on Capitol Hill are poised to press forward with legislation thatpurports to address what...
Balancing Patent Rights and Litigation Abuses
F. Scott Kieff, Adam Mossoff, Noah Joshua Phillips, Dean Reuter
Patents and Innovation: Addressing Current Issues
Policy makers on Capitol Hill are poised to press forward with legislation thatpurports to address what...
The Regulatory Reach of the FTC, and its International Implications
Alden F. Abbott, Paul Redmond Michel, Dean Reuter, Joshua D. Wright
Patents and Innovation: Addressing Current Issues
Parity between the treatment of intellectual property rights (IPRs) and real property is a core principle of...