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16 Ave Maria L. Rev. 1 (2018)
The Constitutional Jurisprudence of William Bentley Ball and Charles E. Rice

handle is hein.journals/avemar16 and id is 7 raw text is: THE CONSTITUTIONAL JURISPRUDENCE OF WILLIAM BENTLEY BALL AND CHARLES E. RICE By Stephen M Krason In the last four decades of the twentieth century, two especially prominent names can be recalled among Catholic figures in the area of American constitutional law: William Bentley Ball and Dr. Charles E. Rice. Ball died in 1999, and Rice continued his work into the twenty-first century, passing only in 2015. Ball was noted for his courtroom work as an attorney defending religious liberty and parental education rights. He handled cases from the county trial court level up to the United States Supreme Court, where he was involved in three dozen cases. He is especially remembered for the 1972 Supreme Court case Wisconsin v. Yoder,' one of the main religious liberty decisions in the Court's history, which upheld the educational rights of the Amish. He also was a constitutional scholar and prolific writer on these topics and had served as one of the original faculty of Villanova University Law School. The William Bentley Ball Memorial Archive, across from the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., was established as a witness to his legacy and a resource library for those continuing his legal and constitutional efforts. Rice was a long-time professor at Notre Dame Law School and author of numerous books and articles on constitutional law, pro-life issues, and Catholic topics. He was also an editor of The American Journal of Jurisprudence (formerly the Natural Law Forum) that is published at Notre Dame Law School. He had earlier practiced law in New York City and taught at New York University and Fordham law schools. Additionally, he had been one of the founders of both the New York State Conservative Party and one of the first right-to-life organizations in the country. Rice was well-known both in the scholarly domain and in the popular one, as he was a prominent Catholic lay apologist and played a prominent role in a host of leading Catholic and legal organizations such as: the Thomas More Law Center, the Center for Law and Justice, and the Eternal Word Television Network. He also played a role in the founding and early development of Ave Maria School of Law. This article discusses the jurisprudential thought of each man, especially as it concerns the areas that their legal thought and efforts were directed to: 1. See generally Wisconsinv. Yoder, 406 U.S. 205 (1972). 1

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