Charles Edward Rice (August 7, 1931 – February 25, 2015) was an American legal scholar, Catholic apologist, and author of several books.

He also served as a consultant to the United States Commission on Civil Rights and to various Congressional committees on constitutional issues and was an editor of the American Journal of Jurisprudence.

[7] He is also a board member of Blackstone Fellowship the Christian conservative legal training program run by Alliance Defending Freedom.

[8] Rice made several video lectures on Natural Law Theory and other topics, including The Good Code for EWTN,[1][9] Right Reason with Dr. Charles Rice alongside Michael Voris for Church Militant.tv,[10] and Natural Law: What It Is and Why We Need It for International Catholic University.

[11] Rice was a regular columnist for The Irish Rover, a student-run newspaper serving the University of Notre Dame campus.