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.
Originalism and the Communications Act of 1934
Jonathan Adelstein, Brendan Carr, Mignon Clyburn, Michael H. Park, Nathan Simington
2023 National Lawyers Convention
In recent months, the U.S. Senate confirmed a third Democratic Commissioner at the Federal Communications...
Originalism and the Communications Act of 1934
Jonathan Adelstein, Brendan Carr, Mignon Clyburn, Michael H. Park, Nathan Simington
2023 National Lawyers Convention
In recent months, the U.S. Senate confirmed a third Democratic Commissioner at the Federal Communications...
Showcase Panel II: Whither Precedent?
Tara Leigh Grove, Randy J. Kozel, Gary Lawson, John O. McGinnis, William H. Pryor
2023 National Lawyers Convention
No one maintains that the Court has always and forever been originalist in its orientation....
Showcase Panel II: Whither Precedent?
Tara Leigh Grove, Randy J. Kozel, Gary Lawson, John O. McGinnis, William H. Pryor
2023 National Lawyers Convention
No one maintains that the Court has always and forever been originalist in its orientation....
Defend the Constitution, Save the Planet: The Role of Public Interest Groups in Shaping Environmental Law
David D. Doniger, Stephanie Ann Maloney, Kathryn Kimball Mizelle, Robert V. Percival, Damien Michael Schiff
2023 National Lawyers Convention
The United States adopted its modern environmental statutes in the 1970s. Among other innovations, Congress...
Defend the Constitution, Save the Planet: The Role of Public Interest Groups in Shaping Environmental Law
David D. Doniger, Stephanie Ann Maloney, Kathryn Kimball Mizelle, Robert V. Percival, Damien Michael Schiff
2023 National Lawyers Convention
The United States adopted its modern environmental statutes in the 1970s. Among other innovations, Congress...
Showcase Panel I: Roundtable: Originalism on the Ground
Paul D. Clement, Britt C. Grant, James C. Ho, Joan Larsen, Bernadette Meyler, Jason Miyares, Kevin C. Newsom, Elizabeth B. Wydra
2023 National Lawyers Convention
Trying to sort out what originalism means in practice requires integrating insights from all levels...
Showcase Panel I: Roundtable: Originalism on the Ground
Paul D. Clement, Britt C. Grant, James C. Ho, Joan Larsen, Bernadette Meyler, Jason Miyares, Elizabeth B. Wydra, Kevin C. Newsom
2023 National Lawyers Convention
Trying to sort out what originalism means in practice requires integrating insights from all levels...
Litigation Update: Koons v. Platkin
Peter A. Patterson
Koons v. Platkin is a challenge to certain provisions of New Jersey Bill A4769/S3214 –...
Litigation Update: Koons v. Platkin
Peter A. Patterson
Koons v. Platkin is a challenge to certain provisions of New Jersey Bill A4769/S3214 –...