Willy E. Rice

Publications

• Circumventing State Actors’ “Irrational” Interferences with Collegiate Athletes and “Vice” Industries’ Prospective, But “Sinful” Relations — Legal and Empirical Inferences From Occupational-Liberty and Section-1983 Decisions
  14 BERKELEY J. ENT. & SPORTS L. 41 (2025) · Berkeley Journal of Entertainment and Sports Law · 2025
• The Emerging Name, Image, and Likeness Industry and the Perils of Appropriating “Entrepreneurial” Collegiate Athletes’ and “Vengeful” Minors’ Property Interests—Historical and Empirical Guidance from Courts’ Right of Publicity, Misappropriation, and Breach of Contract Decisions, 1830-2023
  13 BERKELEY J. ENT. & SPORTS L. 99 (2024) · Berkeley Journal of Entertainment and Sports Law · 2024
• Abolishing the Communications Decency Act Might Sanitize “Politically Biased,” “Digitally Polluted” and “Dangerously Toxic” Social Media? ― Judicial and Statistical Guidance From Federal-Preemption, Safe-Harbor and Rights-Preservation Decisions
  24 SMU SCI. & TECH. L. REV. 257 (2021) · SMU Science and Technology Law Review · 2021
• Deciphering Property Insurers’ Indemnification Obligations After Disasters, Pandemics and Business Interruption Losses: An Analysis of State Supreme Courts and Federal Circuits’ Declaratory Judgments
  16 J. BUS. & TECH. L. 1 (2021) · Journal of Business & Technology Law · 2021

• Courts Gone “Irrationally Biased” in Favor of the Federal Arbitration Act?—Enforcing Arbitration Provisions in Standardized Applications and Marginalizing Consumer-Protection, Antidiscrimination, and States’ Contract Laws: A 1925–2014 Legal and Empirical Analysis
  6 WM. & MARY BUS. L. REV. 405 (2015) · William & Mary Business Law Review · 2015
• Fire Losses and Conflicting Judicial Rulings Over Whether Property Insurers Must Indemnify Insureds and Pay Third-Party Claims - Some Implications for Wildfire Litigation in Texas's Courts
  1 TEX. WES. J. REAL PROP. L. 31 (2012) · Texas Wesleyan Journal of Real Property Law · 2012
• 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 Analysis of Class Action Dispositions in Federal and State Courts, 1925-2011
  3 WM. & MARY BUS. L. REV. 419 (2012) · William & Mary Business Law Review · 2012

• 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 166A(A), 166A(B), and 166A(l).
  36 ST. MARY'S L.J. (2005) · St. Mary's Law Journal · 2005

• 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. (1998) · American University Law Review · 1998
• Race, Gender, "Redlining," and the Discriminatory Access to Loans, Credit, and Insurance: An Historical and Empirical Analysis of Consumers Who Sued Lenders and Insurers in Federal and State Courts, 1950-1995
  33 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 583 (1996) · San Diego Law Review · 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 (1994) · Catholic University Law Review · 1994
• Judicial Bias, the Insurance Industry and Consumer Protection: An Empirical Analysis of State Supreme Courts' Bad-Faith, Breach-of-Contract, Breach-of-Convenant-of-Good-Faith and Excess-Judgement Decisions, 1900-1991
  41 CATH. U. L. REV. 325 (1992) · Catholic University Law Review · 1992
• Judicial and Adminstrative Enforcement of Individual Rights under the National Labor Relations Act and under the Labor-Management Relations Act between 1935 and 1990 - An Historical and Empirical Analysis of Unsettled Intercircuit and Intracircuit Conflicts
  40 DEPAUL L. REV. 653 (1991) · DePaul Law Review · 1991