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    Indian-American Apsara Iyer becomes president of Harvard Law Review, 1st in publication’s 136-yr history

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    ​The Harvard Law Review was founded in 1887 and is among the oldest student-run legal scholarship publications.

    Apsara Iyer
    The 29-year-old has become the first woman from the community to be named to the position in the prestigious publication’s 136-year-long history.
    Apsara A. Iyer, an Indian-American second year student at Harvard Law School, has been elected president of the prestigious Harvard Law Review.

    The 29-year-old has become the first woman from the community to be named to the position in the prestigious publication’s 136-year-long history.

    Iyer, who has been investigating art crime and repatriation since 2018, succeeds Priscila Coronado.
    "Apsara has changed the lives of many editors for the better, and I know she will continue to do so," Coronado said. "From the start, she has impressed her fellow editors with her remarkable intelligence, thoughtfulness, warmth, and fierce advocacy."

    The Harvard Law Review was founded in 1887 and is among the oldest student-run legal scholarship publications.

    Iyer said in The Crimson report that as Law Review president, she aims to "include more editors in the process of reviewing and selecting articles and upholding the publication's reputation for "high-quality" work."

    "Since joining the Law Review, I have been inspired by her (Priscila's) skillful management, compassion, and capacity to build vibrant, inclusive communities. I am so grateful that we 'Volume 137' inherit her legacy, and I am honored to continue building on this important work over the next year," Iyer said in a statement announcing her appointment.

    Iyer feels great to be welcomed into an organisation that has intelligent individuals who are interested in different parts of law.

    "I feel like I've been able to be welcomed into this organisation that's filled with individuals who are so intelligent and so interested in different parts of the law," Iyer said in the Crimson report.

    Who Is Apsara Iyer?
    The 29-year-old graduated from Yale in 2016 with a B.A. in Economics and Math, and Spanish.
    She then pursued MPhil at Oxford as a Clarendon Scholar out of her dedication to archaeology and indigenous communities. In 2018, Iyer joined the Manhattan District Attorney’s Antiquities Trafficking Unit (ATU).

    There she investigated art crime, coordinating with international and federal law-enforcement authorities to repatriate more than 1,100 stolen works of art to 15 different countries.

    In 2020, the 29-year-old enrolled at Harvard Law School where she is a student in the International Human Rights Clinic and also a member of the South Asian Law Students Association.

    Iyer then took a leave of absence from Harvard Law School in 2021-2022 to return to the DA’s Office where she worked on an international antiquities trafficking investigation and rose to be the deputy of the ATU.

    Iyer's predecessors in the role of elected president of the prestigious Harvard Law Review include Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and former president Barack Obama.
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