Books and Academic Book Chapters

• Rightlessness in a Nuclear State: Addressing North Korea's Dual Crises (under contract with Routledge Press, forthcoming 2014).
• “A State of Rightlessness: The Egregious Case of North Korea” chapter in the book International Law, Conventions and Justice, edited by Prof. David Frenkel, LLD.

Law Review Articles

• "International Humanitarian Law and North Korea: Another Angle for Accountability," (accepted for publication).
• "Finding a Forum for North Korea," 65 SMU Law Review 4 (lead article).
• “Upholding Human Rights in the Hemisphere: Casting Down Impunity Through the Inter-American Court of Human Rights,” 43 Texas International Law Journal 2.
• “Compliance Theory and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights,” 33 International Journal of Legal Information 3 (lead article). This journal is housed and peer-edited at Yale Law School.
• “A State of Rightlessness:  the Egregious Case of North Korea” 80 Mississippi Law Journal 20.
• “The North Korean Nuclear Crisis: Past Failures and Present Solutions,” 50 St. Louis University Law Journal 2. 
• “The Jurisprudential Underpinnings of Law, Especially International Law: the Basis for True Progress & Reform” 2 Tennessee Journal of Law and Policy 1 (lead article).
• “Advancing Civil Rights, the Next Generation: the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 and Beyond”,  19 Health Matrix: Journal of Law-Medicine 1.

Selected Presentations

• "Syrian Humanitarian Crisis from an International Legal Perspective," presented with Professors Rosado and Brown, Chicago-Kent College of Law; Professors Ward and Kelleman, DePaul University College of Law; and Professor Telman from Valparaiso University Law School; Chicago-Kent College of Law, Chicago, Illinois, November 2013.
• "How to Become a Law Professor," presented with Luke Milligan, University of Louisville; Jody Madeira, University of Indiana Maurer School of Law; Howard Wasserman, Florida International University; and Michael Kang, Emory Law School before the Southeastern Association of Law Schools, Palm Beach, Florida, August 2013.
• "The International Criminal Court: Is the World Better Off?," debate with Professor Eugene Kontorovich, Northwestern University Law School, held at Northern Illinois University College of Law, March 2013. 
• Presenter on the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Valparaiso University Law School faculty workshop, October 2012.
• Commented on talk on the use of drones in warfare by Professor Robert F. Turner, University of Virginia School of Law, Fall 2011.
• "Redress for a Reprehensible Regime: Finding a Forum for North Korea," presented at the Central States Law Schools' Association annual conference, 2011.
• “A State of Rightlessness: the Egregious Case of North Korea,” presented in Athens, Greece at the Athens Institute for Education and Research Law Conference, 2010.
• “Compliance Theory and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights,” presented at Queens University Law School (Canada), 2007.
• “Issues Concerning North Korea,” presented at the University of Texas, 2007.

Selected Media Contributions

• Morse Tan, We Can No Longer Ignore Atrocities of Kim Jong-Un's North Korea, National Law Journal, Feb. 17, 2014.
• Morse Tan, Syrian Executions May Amount to War Crimes, JURIST - Forum, Feb. 1, 2014, 
• Morse Tan, The Human Rights Crisis in North Korea, Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, September 10, 2013.
• Ghimire, B. with material from Morse Tan (2009, July 15). North Korea's strategic belligerence.  United Press International.
• Tan, M. (Guest). (2009, July 5).  WJXT Morning Show. Jacksonville, FL: WJXT.
  

Areas of Expertise:  International Law, Human Rights, Bioethics, Constitutional Law, North Korea, Legal Philosophy