Biography
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 University of San Diego 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.
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.
Selected Scholarship
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Income Tax Planning for Visual Artists, Their Dealers, Investors, and Collectors 2021
170 Tax Notes 923
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Copyright Co-Owners 2020
67 Journal of the Copyright Society of the USA 37
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Mastering Art Law 2020
(2nd ed., Carolina Academic Press)
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Uniform Interpretation of CISG 2019
52 The International Lawyer 169
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Holocaust Art Disputes 2018
51 The International Lawyer 276
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Art Resale Royalty Options 2016
63 Journal of the Copyright Society of the USA 201