Tara Leigh Grove | |
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Academic background | |
Education |
Duke University (
BA) Harvard University ( JD) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Law |
Sub-discipline |
Federal judiciary Separation of powers |
Institutions |
Florida State University College of William & Mary University of Alabama University of Texas at Austin |
Tara Leigh Grove is an American legal scholar working as a professor and the Vinson & Elkins Chair in Law at the University of Texas School of Law.
Grove earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science, summa cum laude, from Duke University. She spent a year teaching English in Japan and earned a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School. In law school, Grove worked as the Supreme Court chair of the Harvard Law Review. [1]
Grove served as a law clerk for Judge Emilio Garza before working for the United States Department of Justice Civil Division for four years. [2] [3] Grove began teaching at the Florida State University College of Law in 2009, and joined the faculty of the College of William & Mary in 2011, where she was named Mills E. Godwin, Jr. Professor of Law. [4] In 2020, Grove accepted an appointment as the Charles E. Tweedy, Jr. Endowed Chairholder in Law at the University of Alabama School of Law. [5] [6] She served on the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States. [7] [8] In summer 2022, Grove left the University of Alabama School of Law for the University of Texas School of Law, where she currently serves as the Vinson & Elkins Chair in Law. [9]
Tara Leigh Grove | |
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Academic background | |
Education |
Duke University (
BA) Harvard University ( JD) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Law |
Sub-discipline |
Federal judiciary Separation of powers |
Institutions |
Florida State University College of William & Mary University of Alabama University of Texas at Austin |
Tara Leigh Grove is an American legal scholar working as a professor and the Vinson & Elkins Chair in Law at the University of Texas School of Law.
Grove earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science, summa cum laude, from Duke University. She spent a year teaching English in Japan and earned a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School. In law school, Grove worked as the Supreme Court chair of the Harvard Law Review. [1]
Grove served as a law clerk for Judge Emilio Garza before working for the United States Department of Justice Civil Division for four years. [2] [3] Grove began teaching at the Florida State University College of Law in 2009, and joined the faculty of the College of William & Mary in 2011, where she was named Mills E. Godwin, Jr. Professor of Law. [4] In 2020, Grove accepted an appointment as the Charles E. Tweedy, Jr. Endowed Chairholder in Law at the University of Alabama School of Law. [5] [6] She served on the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States. [7] [8] In summer 2022, Grove left the University of Alabama School of Law for the University of Texas School of Law, where she currently serves as the Vinson & Elkins Chair in Law. [9]