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.
Are Patents Under Attack in the Supreme Court?
John F. Duffy, Michael Huston, Adam Mossoff, Randall R. Rader, J. Troy Wall
As Congress debates controversial patent legislation that some say will undermine patent rights, has the...
Are Patents Under Attack in the Supreme Court?
John F. Duffy, Michael Huston, Adam Mossoff, Randall R. Rader, J. Troy Wall
As Congress debates controversial patent legislation that some say will undermine patent rights, has the...
Are Patents Under Attack in the Supreme Court?
Fourth Annual Executive Branch Review Conference
Washington, DCTopics
Executive Branch Review Conference Live Streams
The Fourth Annual Executive Branch Review Conference was live streamed on May 17. The theme...
The 2016 Paul M. Bator Award
Tara Leigh Grove
The Federalist Society presented the 2016 Paul M. Bator Award on Saturday, February 27, to...
Panel I: Capitalism and Inequality
Yaron Brook, Thomas B. Edsall, Jason Johnston, Paul G. Mahoney, Dan McBride, Jerry E. Smith, Steven Teles
Free markets have exponentially improved the well-being of humanity and lifted more people out of...
Panel I: Capitalism and Inequality
Yaron Brook, Thomas B. Edsall, Jason Johnston, Paul G. Mahoney, Dan McBride, Jerry E. Smith, Steven Teles
Free markets have exponentially improved the well-being of humanity and lifted more people out of...
Panel IV: Education Reform and Equality of Opportunity
Clint Bolick, Cynthia G. Brown, Jennifer Walker Elrod, William A. Galston, Abby Warren, Amy Wax
Equality of opportunity is supposed to be a fundamental American principle. But it is not...
Panel IV: Education Reform and Equality of Opportunity
Clint Bolick, Cynthia G. Brown, Jennifer Walker Elrod, William A. Galston, Abby Warren, Amy Wax
Equality of opportunity is supposed to be a fundamental American principle. But it is not...
Panel III: The Safety Net and Poverty
Christopher C. DeMuth, William A. Galston, John C. Harrison, Julia D. Mahoney, Thomas Sanford, David A. Super
Most agree that society should take care of its neediest members. The question is how...