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]
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