Michael Bazyler is professor of law and the 1939 Society Law Scholar in Holocaust and Human Rights Studies at Chapman University in California. He is holder of previous fellowships at Harvard Law School, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., and Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, where he held the Oppenheim Chair for the Study of Racism, Antisemitism and the Holocaust. He received his B.A. from UCLA and his JD from USC and is currently completing his PhD at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen–Nürnberg (FAU) in Germany. He is an award-winning author of seven books and over 50 book chapters and essays on law, antisemitism, the Holocaust, and restitution following mass atrocities. His current research focuses on the restitution of looted artworks, including Nazi-looted art, Armenian Genocide Looted Art (AGLA), and art dispossessed by European colonial powers. He is also co-director of a major educational initiative launched by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) to create the online portal Holocaust, Antisemitism, and the Law Learning (HALL) Center, expected to launch in Fall 2026.