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.
Banquet Dinner & Presentation of the Annual Joseph Story Award
2019 National Student Symposium
Phoenix, AZPanel: Scholarly Rigor and Intellectual Orthodoxy
William Baude, Erwin Chemerinsky, Joshua Kleinfeld, Thomas Lee
This panel will focus on questions of academic rigor and intellectual orthodoxy in modern American...
Panel: Social Media and Freedom of Speech
Richard A. Epstein, Justin (Gus) Hurwitz, J.S. Nelson, Hannibal Travis, Aaron Wright
Over the past year, there have been a number of discussions about social media and...
Young Legal Scholars Paper Presentations
Lawrence Alexander, Vincent Buccola, Paul Crane, Richard A. Epstein, Jenn L. Mascott, Lance Sorenson, Lael Weinberger, Ilan Wurman
On January 3, 2019, the Federalist Society hosted the Young Legal Scholars Paper Presentations. The...
Young Legal Scholars Paper Presentations
Lawrence Alexander, Vincent Buccola, Paul Crane, Richard A. Epstein, Jenn L. Mascott, Lance Sorenson, Lael Weinberger, Ilan Wurman
On January 3, 2019, the Federalist Society hosted the Young Legal Scholars Paper Presentations. The...
Luncheon Debate: Resolved: The Supreme Court Should Overrule Qualified Immunity
William Baude, Tara Leigh Grove, Christopher J. Walker
On January 3, 2019, the Federalist Society hosted a luncheon debate on qualified immunity. The...
Luncheon Debate: Resolved: The Supreme Court Should Overrule Qualified Immunity
William Baude, Tara Leigh Grove, Christopher J. Walker
On January 3, 2019, the Federalist Society hosted a luncheon debate on qualified immunity. The...
Panel: Scholarly Rigor and Intellectual Orthodoxy
21st Annual Federalist Society Faculty Conference
New Orleans, LAPanel: Social Media and Freedom of Speech
21st Annual Federalist Society Faculty Conference
New Orleans, LAYoung Legal Scholars Paper Presentations
21st Annual Federalist Society Faculty Conference
New Orleans, LA