Mike Pence to participate in Liberty School of Law events

Vice President Mike Pence will return to the Liberty University campus as a special guest at two private events at Liberty University School of Law on Tuesday, March 28. The events are invitation-only for students, faculty, and staff of Liberty Law.

Tuesday will mark Pence’s fourth visit to Liberty. Most recently, he addressed the student body in Convocation last September. He delivered the keynote address at Liberty’s 46th Commencement in May 2019 and spoke at Convocation in October 2016 as then-Indiana governor and Republican vice presidential candidate.

Pence recently expressed his appreciation to Liberty Law Dean Morse Tan for his leadership and service as Ambassador at Large for the U.S. State Department’s Office of Global Criminal Justice from 2019-21 during the Trump-Pence Administration. Tan came to Liberty Law in January 2022.

Pence will be speaking at Liberty Law’s Ad Fontes ceremony, an annual tradition for 3L students and their families in preparation for graduation. The ceremony encourages a renewed focus on the Bible as the primary source of Christian faith and law and emphasizes other source documents that led to the formation of Western Legal Traditions. Later in the day, Pence will also speak at the school’s first Consecration Service, where all law students, faculty, and staff will join to collectively dedicate the building, their professional work, and their service to the Lord.

“We want to be set apart for God’s use and be dedicated in the midst of all sorts of crosswinds in the culture and in legal academia,” Tan said. “We want to be a faithful part of His Kingdom. I also want to be consecrated myself, to stewarding the School of Law well and seeking to fulfill what He would want to do through the School of Law.”

In addition to keynoting these events, Vice President Pence will be taking part in a private book signing at Liberty Law School’s Mountain View Room.

Pence earned a Juris Doctor from Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law and was an attorney in private practice early in his career.

Grammy Award-winning Christian recording artist Michael W. Smith is scheduled to perform during both events. He serves as the executive director of Liberty’s Michael W. Smith Center for Commercial Music.