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 Columbia Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the New York University Law Review, the University of Chicago 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. 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.
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Lunch & Breakout Session B: Becoming an Academic
2023 National Student Symposium
AT&T Hotel and Conference Center1900 University Ave
Austin, TX 78705
Panel V: Is Judicial Review Democratic?
2023 National Student Symposium
AT&T Hotel and Conference Center1900 University Ave
Austin, TX 78705
Recent Developments in Textualist and Originalist Theory
Alabama Student Chapter
The University of Alabama School of Law101 Paul W Bryant Dr
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487
Showcase Panel I: The Legal Profession and Constitutional Culture
2022 National Lawyers Convention
The Mayflower Hotel1127 Connecticut Ave NW
Washington, DC 20006
A Major Question Going Forward: the Legitimacy, Application, and Future of the Major Questions Doctrine in Administrative Law
Texas Student Chapter
University of Texas School of LawTNH 2.137
Austin, TX 78705
Divisions within Textualism
Northwestern Student Chapter
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law375 E. Chicago Ave.
Chicago, IL 60661
Debates within Textualism
Alabama Student Chapter
University of Alabama School of Law101 Paul W Bryant Drive
Tuscaloosa, AL 35401
Which Textualism? A Conversation on Bostock v Clayton County
Yale Student Chapter
Zoom Webinar -- Yale Law SchoolZoom Webinar
New Haven, CT 06511
Showcase Panel I: The Legal Profession and Constitutional Culture
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
2022 National Lawyers Convention
Lawyers and judges play an important role in a democratic republic like the United States. ...
Young Legal Scholars Paper Presentations
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
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?
22nd Annual Federalist Society Faculty Conference
On January 3-4, 2020, the Federalist Society hosted its 22nd annual Faculty Conference at the...