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Charles E. Rice
Professor Emeritus of Law
Office Number: 140 Law School
Telephone: 574.631.5667
Fax: 574.631.4197
Email: Charles.E.Rice.1@nd.edu
Staff Assistant: Rebecca Ward
Charles E. Rice is Professor Emeritus of Law at the University of Notre Dame Law School. He continues to teach jurisprudence as an elective and Morality and the Law. Professor Rice was born in 1931, received the B.A. degree from the College of the Holy Cross, the J.D. from Boston College Law School and the LL.M. and J.S.D. from New York University. He served in the Marine Corps and is a Lt. Col. in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve (Ret.). He practiced law in New York City and taught at New York University Law School and Fordham Law School before joining, in 1969, the faculty of law at Notre Dame. He served for eight years as State Vice-Chairman of the New York State Conservative Party.
From 1981 to 1993, Professor Rice was a member of the Education Appeal Board of the U.S. Department of Education. He has served as a consultant to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and to various Congressional committees on constitutional issues and is an editor of the American Journal of Jurisprudence. He is a member of the governing boards of Ave Maria School of Law, Franciscan University of Steubenville, and the Eternal Word Television Network. He is also chairman of the Center for Law and Justice International in New Hope, Kentucky, and a director of the Thomas More Center for Law and Justice in Ann Arbor. He is an assistant coach of the Notre Dame Boxing Club. He and his wife, Mary, have ten children and they reside in Mishawaka, Indiana.
LAW70843, Morality and the Law
Faculty Expertise Areas
- Constitutional law
- Right-to-life issues
Books
Where Did I Come From? Where Am I Going? How Do I Get There? (St. Augustine’s Press 2006), co-authored with Theresa Farnan.
The Winning Side: Questions on Living the Culture of Life (St. Brendan’s Institute 1999).
Fifty Questions on the Natural Law: What it Is and Why We Need It (Ignatius Press 1993).
No Exception, A Pro-Life Imperative (1990).
Beyond Abortion: The Theory and Practice of the Secular State (Franciscan Herald Press 1979).
Authority and Rebellion: The Case for Orthodoxy in the Catholic Church (Doubleday, 1971).
The Vanishing Right to Live: An Appeal for a Renewed Reverence for Life (Doubleday, 1969).
The Supreme Court and Public Prayer: (Fordham University Press 1964).
Freedom of Association (New York University Press 1962).
Articles
Professor Rice has written numerous articles on a variety of subjects, including:
Rights and the Need for Objective Moral Limits, 3 Ave Maria L. Rev. 259 (2005).
Contraception as a Mask of Personhood, Univ. of St. Thomas L.J. 713 (2003).
Abortion, Euthanasia and the Need to Build a New “Culture of Life,” 12 Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy 497 (1998).
Edward J. Murphy: A Professor For All Seasons, with David T. Link, P.V. Neimeyer, C. Roth, R.E. Spiedel and T.D. Yannucci, 71 Notre Dame Law Review 557 (1996).
In Memoriam: The Honorable J. Daniel Mahoney, 72 Notre Dame Law Review 1219 (1996).
The Legality and Morality of Using Deadly Force to Protect Unborn Children from Abortionists, 5 Regent University Law Review 83 (1995).
Some Reasons for a Restoration of Natural Law Jurisprudence, 24 Wake Forest Law Review 539 (1989).
Issues Raised by the Abortion Rescue Movement, 23 Suffolk University Law Review 15 (1989).
Withdrawing Jurisdiction from Federal Courts, 7 Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 13 (1984).
Congress and the Supreme Court Jurisdiction, 27 Villanova Law Review 959 (1982).
Conscientious Objection to Public Education: The Grievance and the Remedies, 1978 Brigham Young University Law Review 847.
Appellate Briefs
Professor Rice has authored numerous briefs in the United States Supreme Court and other courts on constitutional issues.
Other Items
Professor Edward J. Murphy, Notre Dame Lawyer 9 (1994-95).
