Tara Grove
- Vinson & Elkins Chair in Law
- Professor
Tara Leigh Grove, the Vinson & Elkins Chair in Law, focuses her research on the federal judiciary, interpretive theory, and the constitutional separation of powers. She has been published in prestigious law journals and has received awards for both her research and teaching. In 2021, Professor Grove served on the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States, a bipartisan commission charged with examining proposals for Supreme Court reform.
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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 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.
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year-2025
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Article
Disfavored Supreme Court Precedent in the Lower Federal Courts
Tara Leigh Grove, Disfavored Supreme Court Precedent in the Lower Federal Courts, 111 Virginia Law Review (forthcoming 2025) (with Curtis Bradley). View online.
year-2024
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Is Textualism at War with Statutory Precedent?
Tara Leigh Grove, Is Textualism at War with Statutory Precedent?, 102 Texas Law Review 639 (2024).
year-2023
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The Misunderstood History of Textualism
Tara Leigh Grove, The Misunderstood History of Textualism, 117 Northwestern University Law Review 1033 (2023).
year-2022
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Testing Textualism’s “Ordinary Meaning”
Tara Leigh Grove, Testing Textualism’s “Ordinary Meaning,” in 90 George Washington University Law Review 1053 (symposium issue) (2022).
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Book
Low & Jeffries’ Federal Courts and the Law of Federal-State Relations (10th ed. 2022)
Tara Leigh Grove, Low & Jeffries’ Federal Courts and the Law of Federal-State Relations (10th ed. 2022) (with Curtis A. Bradley, John C. Jeffries, Jr., & Peter W. Low)
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Book
Low & Jeffries’ Federal Courts and the Law of Federal-State Relations: Teacher's Manual
Tara Leigh Grove, Low & Jeffries’ Federal Courts and the Law of Federal-State Relations: Teacher's Manual (2022) (with Curtis A. Bradley).
year-2021
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Article
Sacrificing Legitimacy in a Hierarchical Judiciary
Tara Leigh Grove, Sacrificing Legitimacy in a Hierarchical Judiciary, 121 Columbia Law Review 1555 (2021). View Online
year-2020
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Which Textualism?
Tara Leigh Grove, Which Textualism?, 134 Harvard Law Review 265 (2020). View Online
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Presidential Laws and the Missing Interpretive Theory
Tara Leigh Grove, Presidential Laws and the Missing Interpretive Theory, 168 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 877 (2020). View Online
year-2019
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Government Standing and the Fallacy of Institutional Injury
Tara Leigh Grove, Government Standing and the Fallacy of Institutional Injury, 167 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 611 (2019). View Online
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Book Review
The Supreme Court’s Legitimacy Dilemma
Tara Leigh Grove, The Supreme Court’s Legitimacy Dilemma, 132 Harvard Law Review 2240 (2019) (reviewing Richard H. Fallon, Law and Legitimacy in the Supreme Court (2018)). View Online
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Some Puzzles of State Standing
Tara Leigh Grove, Some Puzzles of State Standing, in 94 Notre Dame Law Review 1883 (symposium issue) (2019). View Online
year-2018
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The Power of “So-Called Judges”
Tara Leigh Grove, The Power of “So-Called Judges”, 93 New York University Online 14 (2018). View Online
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The Origins (and Fragility) of Judicial Independence
Tara Leigh Grove, The Origins (and Fragility) of Judicial Independence, 71 Vanderbilt Law Review 465 (2018). View Online
year-2017
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Justice Scalia’s Other Standing Legacy
Tara Leigh Grove, Justice Scalia’s Other Standing Legacy, in 84 University of Chicago Law Review 2243 (2017). View Online
year-2016
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When Can a State Sue the United States?
Tara Leigh Grove, When Can a State Sue the United States?, 101 Cornell Law Review 851 (2016). View Online
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Tiers of Scrutiny in a Hierarchical Judiciary
Tara Leigh Grove, Tiers of Scrutiny in a Hierarchical Judiciary, in 14 Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy 475 (2016) (invited essay: Symposium on “Is the Rational Basis Test Unconstitutional?”). View Online
year-2015
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The Lost History of the Political Question Doctrine
Tara Leigh Grove, The Lost History of the Political Question Doctrine, 90 New York University Law Review 1908 (2015). View Online
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Article III in the Political Branches
Tara Leigh Grove, Article III in the Political Branches, in 90 Notre Dame Law Review 1835 (symposium issue) (2015). View Online
year-2014
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Standing Outside of Article III
Tara Leigh Grove, Standing Outside of Article III, 162 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1311 (2014). View Online
spring 2026
- Constitutional Law I
- Federal Courts