Willy E. Rice

Professor of Law | Englehardt Research Fellow

Contact Information

Education

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

Specialties and Courses

Contract Law
Tort Law
Insurance Law
Consumer Law
Law & Technology
Law & Economics
Contracts
Sales-UCC
Deceptive Trade Practices
Law Practice Technology

Biography

Spanning four years, Professor Rice was a graduate-faculty professor at Duke University before securing his post-doctoral degree from The Johns Hopkins University and receiving his law degree from the University of Texas at Austin.

After law school, Professor Rice became a Visiting Public-Law Professor in the Department of Government—University of Texas at Austin, and, later, a Scholar-In-Residence at The American Bar Foundation in Chicago. Professor Rice has been a full- tenured professor of law since 1993 and is presently a Professor of Law and Englehardt Research Fellow at St. Mary’s University School of Law in San Antonio, Texas.

Additionally, for nearly twenty-seven years, he has been a legal expert/statistician for multiple international, national and regional law firms and their clients. Professor Rice is currently a member the Gerson-Lehrman Group of International Experts

Honors and Awards

Scholar-In-Residence — American Bar Foundation, Chicago, Illinois
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
Fifth Circuit’s Excellence in Writing Law Review Award for 2003-2004
Order of the Coif, 1997
Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, 1992
Omicron Delta Kappa Honor Society

Publications

Books

Legal Practice Technology and Law (Cognella Academic Publishing 2017)
Consumer Litigation and Insurance Defense, Cognella Academic Publishing 2 ed.
Contract Law, Practice, Interpretation, and Enforcement, Cognella Academic Publishing 1 ed. 2014

Articles in a Periodical

Willy E. Rice, Allegedly “Biased,” “Intimidating,” And “Incompetent” State Court Judges And The Questionable Removal Of State Law Class Actions To Purportedly “Impartial” And “Competent” Federal Courts-A Historical Perspective And An Empirical Analysis Of Class Action Dispositions In Federal And State Courts, 1925-2011, 3 William & Mary Business Law Review 419 (2012);
The Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit: A Review of Selected 2009-2010 Insurance Decisions, 43 TEX. TECH L. REV. 971 (2011).
The Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit: A Review of 2007-2008 Insurance Decisions, 41 Tex. Tech L. Rev. 1013 (2009).
The Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit: A Legal Analysis and Statistical Review of 2005-2006 Insurance Decisions, 39 Tex. Tech L. Rev. 843 (2007).
The Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit 2004-2005 Disposition of Insurance Decisions: A Survey and Statistical Review, 38 Tex. Tech L. Rev. 821 (2006);
The Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit 2003-2004 Insurance Decisions: A Survey and an Empirical Analysis, 37 Tex. Tech L. Rev. 871 (2005);
Insurance Decisions — A Survey and an Empirical Analysis, 35 Tex. Tech L. Rev. 947 (2004).
Willy E. Rice, Insurance Contracts and Judicial Decisions Over Whether Insurers Must Defend Insureds That Violate Constitutional And Civil Rights: An Historical And Empirical Review Of Federal And State Court Declaratory Judgments 1900-2000, 35 Tort & Ins. L.J. 995 (2000);
Insurance Contracts and Judicial Discord Over Whether Liability Insurers Must Defend Insureds’ Allegedly Intentional and Immoral Conduct: A Historical and Empirical Review of Federal and State Courts’ Declaratory Judgments 1900-1997, 47 Am. U. L Rev. 1131 (1998);
Race, Gender, “Redlining,” and the Discriminatory Access to Loans, Credit, and Insurance: An Historical and Empirical Analysis of Consumers Who Sued Leders and Insurers in Federal and State Courts, 1950-1995, 33 San Diego L. Rev. 583 (1996).
Federal Courts and the Regulation of the Insurance Industry: An Empirical and Historical Analysis of Courts’ Ineffectual Attempts to Harmonize Federal Antitrust, Arbitration, and Insolvency Statutes with the McCarran-Ferguson Act–1941-1993, 43 Cath. U. L. Rev. 399 (1993).
Judicial Bias, The Insurance Industry and Consumer Protection: An Empirical Analysis of State Supreme Courts’ Bad-Faith, Breach-of-Contract, and Breach-of-Covenant-of-Good-Faith and Excess-Judgment Decisions, 1900-1991, 41 Cath. U. L. Rev. 325 (1992).
Judicial and Administrative Enforcement of Title VI, Title IX, and Section 504: A Pre- and Post-Grove City Analysis, 5 Rev. Litig. 219 (1986).