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.
Young Legal Scholars Paper Presentations
17th Annual Faculty Conference
Washington, DCLunch Debate: Affordable Care Act Subsidies
17th Annual Faculty Conference
Washington, DC17th Annual Faculty Conference
Washington, DCWelcome & Panel I: The Executive Power to Not Enforce the Law
17th Annual Faculty Conference
Washington, DCNorth Carolina Board of Dental Examiners v. Federal Trade Commission
David J. Owsiany, Alexander Volokh
Note from the Editor: The Federalist Society is pleased to present two different perspectives on the North...
The Federalist Paper, Fall 2014
We are pleased to bring you the fall issue of The Federalist Paper. Inside, as...
The Criminalization of Politics
Todd P. Graves, Edward T. Kang, John G. Malcolm, John C. Richter
What actions are political and what actions are criminal? Where should prosecutors and courts draw...
The Criminalization of Politics
Criminal Law & Procedure Practice Group
Washington, DCLuncheon and Keynote Address by Richard Epstein
Richard A. Epstein, Dean Reuter
Prof. Richard Epstein delivered the Keynote Address during a conference titled "Patents and Innovation: Addressing Current...
Balancing Patent Rights and Litigation Abuses
F. Scott Kieff, Adam Mossoff, Noah Joshua Phillips, Dean Reuter
Policy makers on Capitol Hill are poised to press forward with legislation thatpurports to address what...