Willy E. Rice

ph: (210) 436-3758
email: wrice@stmarytx.edu

Professor of Law
B.A., 1970, University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa
M.A., 1972, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ph.D, 1975, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Postdoctoral Fellow in Law, Psychiatry & Statistics, 1977, The Johns Hopkins University
J.D., 1982, University of Texas at Austin

Before St. Mary's School of Law

Prior to receiving his law degree, Professor Rice taught in the Department of Sociology at Duke University.

Before joining the faculty at Texas Tech University School of Law in 1989, Professor Rice was a Visiting Public-Law Professor in the Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin, and a Scholar-In-Residence, The American Bar Foundation in Chicago. He was a tenured Professor of Law at Texas Tech from 1993 to 2000.

Professor Rice joined the St. Mary's faculty in 1999 as a visiting professor. He became a full professor at St. Mary's in 2000.

Highlights:

• Distinguished Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching, St. Mary’s School of Law, 2005-2006
• President’s Excellence in Teaching Award, Texas Tech School of Law, 1993
• Ex-Students’ New Faculty Teaching Award, Texas Tech School of Law, 1990
• Order of the Coif, 1997
• Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, 1992

Specialties:

His areas of legal interest are contract law, insurance law, tort law, medical malpractice, law and econometrics, antitrust and legal malpractice.

Publications:

Dr. Rice has written articles for a number of publications including:

• THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW
• THE UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO LAW REVIEW
• THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW
• HOWARD UNIVERSITY LAW JOURNAL
• THE REVIEW OF LITIGATION
• TORT & INSURANCE LAW JOURNAL
• TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW
• DEPAUL UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW
• ST. MARY’S LAW JOURNAL

Dr. Rice's recent articles include:

• The Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit's 2004-2005 Insurance Decisions — A Review & An Empirical Analysis, 37 TEXAS TECH LAW REVIEW 821 (2006) (forthcoming)
• Questionable Summary Judgments, Appearances of Judicial Bias and Insurance Defense in Texas Declaratory-Judgment Trials: A Proposal and Arguments for Revising Texas Rules of Civil Procedure 166-A (a) (b) (i), 36 ST. MARY'S LAW JOURNAL 535 (2005)
• Insurance Decisions — A Survey & An Empirical Analysis of the Fifth Circuit's 2002-2003 Decisions, 35 TEXAS TECH LAW REVIEW 947 (2004)
• "Commercial Terrorism" From The Transatlantic Slave Trade To The World Trade Center Disaster: Are Insurance Companies & Judges "Aiders And Abettors" Of Terror? A Critical Analysis Of American And British Courts' Declaratory And Equitable Actions, 1654-2002, 6 THE SCHOLAR: ST. MARY'S LAW REVIEW ON MINORITY ISSUES 1 (2003)