Morse Tan is the senior executive director of the Center of Law and Government within Liberty University’s Helms School of Government.
From January 2022 to June 2024, Tan served as dean of the Liberty University School of Law, and prior to that, he served as ambassador at large for the U.S. State Department’s Office of Global Criminal Justice.
In his law career, Tan has served as an attorney and counselor at law for major law firms. In legal academia, he has served as a law professor or visiting scholar at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law, Northern Illinois University College of Law, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, and Handong International Law School in Pohang, Korea. He has taught courses on international criminal law, international human rights, bioethics, constitutional law, and North Korean policy.
He is the author of North Korea, International Law, and the Dual Crises and holds a B.A. and M.A. from Wheaton College and a J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law, where he completed an international law concentration.
He and his wife, Sarah, have four children.
