Daniel Rice

University of North Carolina School of Law

Daniel Rice is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina School of Law. His research focuses primarily on the fields of constitutional law and federal Indian law. Rice’s recent scholarship explores the interaction between cultural and legal change, the interpretive significance of moral outrage, and the relationship between memory and legal tradition. His work has appeared (or will appear) in several leading journals, including the Michigan Law Review, Virginia Law Review, California Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, and Washington University Law Review.

Rice clerked for Judge Sri Srinivasan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, as well as Judge Christopher Cooper of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Prior to joining academia, he worked as an attorney at the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection at the Georgetown University Law Center. Rice graduated first in his class from the Duke University School of Law, where he was a Mordecai Scholar. He is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation.