Professor of Law
A.B. 1960, University of Pennsylvania; J.D. 1963, Harvard University; LL.M. 1964, George Washington University; D.E.S.S. 1982, University of Paris I
Professor Herbert “Bert” Lazerow, professor of law and director of the Institute on International and Comparative Law, joined the University of San Diego law faculty in 1967.
He received his A.B. from the University of Pennsylvania in History; J.D from Harvard University; L.L.M. from George Washington University; and D.E.S.S. Conseil Juridique et Fiscal d’Entreprise from l’Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
Before arriving in San Diego, he was a legal writing teaching fellow at GWU, then spent two years drafting regulations, legislation and tax treaties with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service’s Chief Counsel’s Office. He began his teaching career at the University of Louisville and has served as visiting professor at l’Université de Paris X Nanterre.
He is the author of the monograph OECD Draft Influence on United States Income Tax Treaties and numerous articles on tax and property in both English and French. His first article won the Federal Bar Association’s essay contest.
Lazerow served as editor-in-chief of the International Tax Journal and is an elected member of the American Law Institute, where he serves on the Tax Advisory Group, and the Members Consultative Group for the Restatement of Property and for the Study of the Law of Nonprofit Organizations.
He has taught Art Law, Business Planning, Federal Estate & Gift Tax, Federal Income Tax, International Business Transactions, International Contracts, Property, and Tax on International Transactions.
Lazerow has been extensively involved in law school administration. In three different assignments as assistant or associate dean, he was in charge of career services, financial aid, admissions, student recruiting, budgeting, registrar, facilities management and faculty recruitment.
He founded the University of San Diego’s Institute on International and Comparative Law, the first American law school summer program on the European continent, and is currently the senior summer law program director in the country.
He has also been active in the community, having chaired the San Diego Mayor’s Social Science Advisory Committee, the San Diego Open Forum, the Legal Panel of the San Diego chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union and the Jewish Community of La Jolla. He has been a member of the San Diego County Employee Relations Panel, the Caltrans San Diegan Taskforce and the Contemporary Arts Committee of the San Diego Museum of Fine Arts. Additionally, he served as legislative advocate for the Clean Air Council of San Diego.
Lazerow has been married to Jane Frances Goding, a painter in oils and gouache, since 1963. They have two daughters: Erica, a lyric soprano, and Shana, an environmental lawyer. He is a former soccer and softball coach, an amateur genealogist, philatelist and cook, and plays on the law faculty softball team “Diminished Faculties”.
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