Tara Leigh Grove

Grove, Tara Leigh

Visiting Professor of Law

Phone: (312) 503-5143
E-mail: tara.grove@law.northwestern.edu

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Tara Leigh Grove is an Associate Professor at William and Mary Law School.  She specializes in the areas of federal jurisdiction and constitutional law and has published with such prestigious law journals as the Harvard Law Review, Columbia Law Review, and Cornell Law Review. Professor Grove will visit at Northwestern during the fall of 2012.

Professor Grove received her undergraduate degree summa cum laude from Duke University, where she majored in political science. After teaching English in Japan for a year, she attended Harvard Law School, where she graduated magna cum laude and served as the Supreme Court Chair of the Harvard Law Review. She clerked for Judge Emilio Garza on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and then spent four years as an appellate attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice, where she argued fifteen cases in the courts of appeals.  Her research interests include federal courts, constitutional law, statutory interpretation, and civil procedure.

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Areas of Expertise

  • Federal Courts
  • Constitutional Law

Courses

Selected Publications

  • The Exceptions Clause as a Structural Safeguard in 113 columbia law review (forthcoming 2013).
  • The Article II Safeguards of Federal Jurisdiction in 112 columbia law review 250 (2012).
  • The Structural Safeguards of Federal Jurisdiction in 124 harvard law review 869 (2011).
  • The Structural Case for Vertical Maximalism in 95 cornell law review 1 (2009).
  • Standing as an Article II Nondelegation Doctrine in 95 university of pennsylvania journal of constitutional law 781 (2009).

Education

  • BA summa cum laude, Duke University
  • JD magna cum laude, Harvard Law School

Prior Appointments

  • Associate Professor, William and Mary Law School
  • Assistant Professor, Florida State University College of Law
  • Climenko Fellow & Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School
  • Attorney, Civil Division, Appellate Staff, Department of Justice