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
17th Annual Faculty Conference
Washington, DCThe Unique Contributions of Armen Alchian, Robert Bork, and James Buchanan to the George Mason University School of Law
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
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
2012 National Student Symposium
Stanford, CANatural Law & the Constitution: Antiquated or Needed More Than Ever?
Charlottesville, VirginiaPanel 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
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
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?
2010 National Student Symposium
Philadelphia, PAPanel IV: The Administrative State and the Constitution
Cynthia R. Farina, John C. Harrison, Gary Lawson, Jonathan R. Macey, Thomas W. Merrill, Peter M. Shane
The Federalist Society's Student Division presented this panel at the 2009 Annual Student Symposium on...
Panel IV: The Administrative State and the Constitution
2009 National Student Symposium
New Haven, CT