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
Christian R. Burset, Mihailis E. Diamantis, Sean J. Griffith, Tara Leigh Grove, Philip A. Hamburger, Michael T. Morley, Lawrence Solum, Ryan Williams, Ilan Wurman
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Lawrence Lessig, Neomi Rao, Stephen E. Sachs
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Luncheon Debate: Resolved: The Electoral College Should Be Abrogated
Lawrence Lessig, Neomi Rao, Stephen E. Sachs
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Roe v. Wade: The Power of a Law Review [Short Film]
Helen Alvaré, Linda Greenhouse, A. Raymond Randolph, Teresa Stanton Collett
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Regulatory Policy in the Trump Administration
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Dallas, TXOpening Remarks and Keynote Address by Senator Orrin Hatch [Archive Collection]
E. Spencer Abraham, Orrin Hatch
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Opening Remarks and Keynote Address by Senator Orrin Hatch [Archive Collection]
E. Spencer Abraham, Orrin Hatch
On September 13-14, 1991, the Federalist Society held its Fifth Annual National Lawyers Convention on...
Luncheon Debate: Resolved: The Electoral College Should Be Abrogated
22nd Annual Federalist Society Faculty Conference
Washington, DCYoung Legal Scholars Paper Presentations
22nd Annual Federalist Society Faculty Conference
Washington, DC22nd Annual Federalist Society Faculty Conference
Washington, DC