Laserson (Lasersohn) Max (Maxim) Yakovlevich (1887, Mitava, Courland Province – 1951, New York) – jurist, philosopher, politician.

In 1916, Max Laserson graduated from the law faculty of Petrograd University. In 1917, he served in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Provisional Government. From 1920, he lived in Latvia, teaching at a commercial school and at Russian university courses in Riga. In 1922–31, he was a member of the Seimas of the Republic of Latvia of the 1st and 3rd convocations from the Zionist Labour Party *‘Cierey-Cion’. After the coup d'état and the establishment of an ethnocratic authoritarian regime in Latvia in 1934, he was arrested and sent to the Liepaja concentration camp. He was released on 26 October 1934 and emigrated to Palestine in November without police permission. In 1939, he was stripped of his Latvian citizenship because he had taken Palestinian citizenship.

In Palestine, he taught at the School of Law and Economics in Tel Aviv. From 1939, he lived in the United States, where he was an employee of the Department of Justice and a professor at Columbia University, as well as a staff member at the Institute for Jewish Studies. His scientific works are devoted to the theory and history of law, Jewish history, and international legal relations.

He was married and had a son, Eliezer.

Works: Wars and International Politics. Petrograd, 1917; On the International Setting of the Jewish Question. Petrograd, 1917; Nationality and State Structure. Petrograd, 1918; The Right to Banality. An Attempt to Justify Labour Zionism. Riga, 1925; Revolution and Law. Riga, 1926; Social Pedagogy and Legal Education. Riga, 1927; General Theory of Law: Introduction to the Study of Law. Riga, 1930; Mandate, Constitution and Legislative Council of Palestine. Tel Aviv, 1936; Maimonides' Philosophy of Law. Tel Aviv, 1939; Russia and the Western World. Tel Aviv, 1945.