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 III: The Safety Net and Poverty
Christopher C. DeMuth, William A. Galston, John C. Harrison, Julia D. Mahoney, Thomas Sanford, David A. Super
2016 National Student Symposium
Most agree that society should take care of its neediest members. The question is how...
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...
Panel 3: Perspectives on Executive Power: Czars, Libya, and Recent Developments
Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Thomas B. Griffith, John C. Harrison, Sanford V. Levinson, Ilan Wurman, John C. Yoo
2012 National Student Symposium
This panel will address the role of Executive branch officials in making high-level policy decisions,...
Panel 3: Perspectives on Executive Power: Czars, Libya, and Recent Developments
Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Thomas B. Griffith, John C. Harrison, Sanford V. Levinson, Ilan Wurman, John C. Yoo
2012 National Student Symposium
This panel will address the role of Executive branch officials in making high-level policy decisions,...
Panel 4 - Does the Originalism of the Fourteenth Amendment Guarantee Justice for All?
Akhil Reed Amar, Jack M. Balkin, Steven G. Calabresi, John C. Harrison, Amy Wax
2010 National Student Symposium
Often, critics argue that originalism will trap us in the sins of societies past, doomed...
Panel 4 - Does the Originalism of the Fourteenth Amendment Guarantee Justice for All?
Akhil Reed Amar, Jack M. Balkin, Steven G. Calabresi, John C. Harrison, Amy Wax
2010 National Student Symposium
Often, critics argue that originalism will trap us in the sins of societies past, doomed...
Panel IV: The Administrative State and the Constitution
Cynthia R. Farina, John C. Harrison, Gary Lawson, Jonathan R. Macey, Thomas W. Merrill, Peter M. Shane
2009 National Student Symposium
The Federalist Society's Student Division presented this panel at the 2009 Annual Student Symposium on...
Judicial Philosophy/Originalism-The Tempting of America: The Political Seduction of the Law
Steven G. Calabresi, John C. Harrison, Kurt T. Lash, Edwin Meese, Saikrishna Prakash, Jonathan R. Turley
A Conference Discussing the Contributions of Judge Robert H. Bork
Judge Bork has been one of the nation's leading advocates of the proposition that constitutional...
New Directions in Orginalism
Randy E. Barnett, John C. Harrison, John O. McGinnis, Michael B. Rappaport, Kermit Roosevelt
9th Annual Faculty Conference
The Federalist Society's Faculty Division presented this panel discussion at the Ninth Annual Faculty Conference...