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G. William Rice
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Professor G. William Rice earned his B.A. from Phillips University, and his J.D. at the University of Oklahoma College of Law. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Tulsa College of Law in 1995, he represented Indian tribal governmental entities in private practice for almost 18 years. He successfully argued Oklahoma Tax Commission v. Sac and Fox Nation, 508 U.S. 114 (1993) in the United States Supreme Court, filed amicus curiae briefs in a number of Supreme Court cases, and argued several cases in the federal appellate courts.
He served as the founding Director of the Northern Plains Tribal Judicial Training Institute at the University of North Dakota School of Law, taught in Antioch School of Law's Indian Paralegal program, at the University of Oklahoma, Cornell Law School, and the Pre-Law Summer Institute for American Indians in Albuquerque. He is the founding Director of the LL.M. Degree in American Indian and Indigenous Law, and currently serves as Co-Director of the Native American Law Center at the University of Tulsa College of Law. He regularly spends summers teaching in TU's Indian law study abroad program, the Geneva Institute on Indigenous Peoples Law in Geneva, Switzerland.
He represented tribes at the United Nations' Working Group on Indigenous Populations, and the Working Group on the Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and has made presentations to the United Nations' Workshop on Indigenous Children and Youth, and the University of Paris VII - Denis Diderot. Other speaking engagements have included presentations to the Federal Bar Association's Indian Law Conference, the Oklahoma Supreme Court's Sovereignty Symposium, and numerous talks sponsored by major University Law Schools and Indian Tribes.
He is a contributor to the two latest revisions of Felix Cohen's classic Indian law treatise, the "Handbook of Federal Indian Law," and has written extensively in the area of Indian law. His casebook, Tribal Governmental Gaming Law (Carolina Academic Press, 2006) was the first law school level text for Indian gaming law classes.
Current teaching and writing interests include the legal and political systems of Indian Tribes, Constitutional law, and jurisprudence. He teaches Indian Gaming law, Tribal Government, Native American and Indigenous Rights, and Constitutional law. He is currently working on a book tentatively titled "A Practitioner�s Guide to the Indian Reorganization Act," and articles on Indian gaming law, Indian property, and Indian economic development issues. Professor Rice continues his service as Chief Justice of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation and the Sac and Fox Nation in Kansas, and consults with tribal governments and their attorneys to improve tribal governmental structures and capability as well as economic capacity. He also serves on a number of law school and university committees.
Professor Rice is an enrolled member of the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma, and lives with his family on the Sac and Fox Nation�s reservation southwest of Tulsa.