Professor of Law; Founding Director, Summer Law Programs Abroad (1973-2013)
- DESS, 1982, University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonn
- LLM, 1964, George Washington University
- JD, 1963, Harvard University
- AB 1960, University of Pennsylvania
Areas of Expertise
Taxation, Property, Art Law, International Transactions, Negotiation
Professional Experience
Lazerow was a legal writing teaching fellow at George Washington University and spent two years drafting regulations, legislation and tax treaties with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service's Chief Counsel's Office. He taught at the University of Louisville and was a visiting professor at Université de Paris X Nanterre and University of California, Berkeley School of Law. He joined the School of Law faculty in 1967. The San Diego Mayor and City Council have appointed him to the La Jolla Shores Planning Advisory Board, a committee that advises the Planning Department on real estate development in La Jolla Shores.
Honors and Affiliations
Lazerow was editor-in-chief of the International Tax Journal. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute, where he has served on the tax advisory group and the members consultative groups for the restatements third of property, the U.S. law of international commercial arbitration, and the foreign relations law of the U.S., as well as the restatements of the law of charitable nonprofit organizations, copyright, and conflict of laws.
Scholarly Work
- Sourcing Income From Issuing Guarantees, 182 Tax Notes Federal 2243 (2024)
- International Business Negotiations in a Nutshell (West Academic Publishing 2023) (with Ralph H. Folsom)
- Mastering International Sales Law (Carolina Academic Press 2023)
- Settling Holocaust Art Cases With Tax Help, 180 Tax Notes Federal 73 (2023)
- Adverse Possession of Art, 46 Columbia Journal of Law and the Arts 1 (2022)
- Income Tax Planning for Visual Artists, Their Dealers, Investors, and Collectors, 170 Tax Notes Federal 923 (2021)
- Copyright Co-Owners, 67 Journal of the Copyright Society of the USA 37 (2020)
- Mastering Art Law (2nd ed., Carolina Academic Press 2020)
- Uniform Interpretation of CISG, 52 The International Lawyer 169 (2019)
- Holocaust Art Disputes, 51 The International Lawyer 276 (2018)
- Art Resale Royalty Options, 63 Journal of the Copyright Society of the USA 201 (2016)