TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Kate Prince on Jan 28, 2021

Longtime Vanderbilt Law School professor and Nashville resident Allaire Urban Karzon died Sunday. She was 95. Karzon earned her law degree from Yale Law School before working as an attorney with the Office of Alien Property at the U.S. Department of Justice and in the legal department of RCA Corp. After moving to Nashville, Karzon served as counsel to Performance Systems Inc. and Aladdin Industries and practiced as a partner in Neal Karzon and Harwell. She joined Vanderbilt’s law faculty as a lecturer in 1971 and taught tax law until her retirement in 1995, in the process becoming Vanderbilt’s first tenured female law professor. Contributions in her memory may be made to the Visiting Nursing Association of Western New York Inc., 650 Airborne Parkway, Cheektowaga, N.Y. 14225.