death_date children birth_place othername birth_date spouse birthname article_title name occupation
25 february 2015 john joseph patrick , charles peter , jeanne elizabeth , theresa laurence helen , kathleen bernadette , ellen mary , and patricia , mary mary frances , anne patricia , new york city usa charlie rice 07 august 1931 mary e. rice charles edward rice charles e. rice
 charles e. rice professor of law author
charles e. rice

charles edward rice -lrb- august 7 , 1931 -- february 25 , 2015 -rrb- was an american legal scholar , catholic apologist , and author of several books .
he is best known for his career at the notre dame law school at notre dame , indiana .
he began teaching there in 1969 , and in 2000 earned professor emeritus status .
he continued to teach an elective course called `` morality and the law '' each year in retirement .
he was also instrumental in the founding of the conservative party of new york in the 1960s .
he served as vice-chairman of the party from 1962-1969 .
rice served in the marine corps and was a lieutenant colonel in the u.s. marine corps reserve -lrb- retired -rrb- .
from 1981 to 1993 , professor rice was a member of the education appeal board of the us department of education .
he also served as a consultant to the us commission on civil rights and to various congressional committees on constitutional issues and was an editor of the `` american journal of jurisprudence '' .
he was a member of the governing boards of franciscan university of steubenville and the eternal word television network .
he served as chairman of the center for law and justice international in new hope , kentucky , and a director of the thomas more law center in ann arbor .
he was an assistant coach of the notre dame boxing club .
in 1988 rice publicly marched and protested `` the last temptation of christ '' holding it was sacrilegious .
rice appeared at venues to give talks against abortion and euthanasia and was viewed as an authority on bioethics and the law .
he lived with his wife , mary , in mishawaka , indiana .
they have 10 children and 41 grandchildren .
rice died a day before former notre dame president father theodore hesburgh .
the styles of the two men who spent their lives working at notre dame were contrasted by writer john f. mcmanus `` one was a staunch conservative politically and religiously ; the other could easily be classified as his polar opposite . ''
