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.
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 |
Education
editGrove 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]
Career
editGrove 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]
References
edit- ^ "Federalist Society Presents 2016 Bator Award". fedsoc.org. Retrieved 2023-05-05.
- ^ "Faculty Colloquium: Tara Leigh Grove (Alabama)". University of San Diego. 2021. Retrieved 23 April 2022.
- ^ "Tara Leigh Grove". University of Alabama School of Law. Retrieved 23 April 2022.
- ^ Morrill, David F. (31 January 2020). "Professor Tara Leigh Grove Delivers the 2020 Blackstone Lecture". College of William & Mary. Retrieved 23 April 2022.
- ^ "Constitutional Scholar Named to Charles E. Tweedy, Jr. Endowed Chair in Law". University of Alabama School of Law. 5 March 2020.
- ^ Morris, Kyle (6 March 2020). "Tara Leigh Grove named endowed chair at UA Law". Yellowhammer News. Retrieved 23 April 2022.
- ^ "Professor Grove Selected for SCOTUS Presidential Commission". University of Alabama School of Law. 9 April 2022. Retrieved 4 May 2022.
- ^ Weiss, Debra Cassens (9 April 2022). "Law profs abound on Biden's new commission to study changing the Supreme Court". ABA Journal. Retrieved 4 May 2022.
- ^ "Tara Grove | Faculty | Texas Law". law.utexas.edu. Retrieved 2023-05-05.