Apsara Iyer has been elected as the 137th president of the Harvard Law Review, becoming the first Indian-American woman to lead the prestigious publication in its 136-year history. She is a Harvard Law School student and has been studying art crime and repatriation since 2018. Iyer is committed to fighting illicit antiquities trafficking and took a leave of absence from law school in 2021-22 to work on an international investigation. Iyer is praised for her intelligence, thoughtfulness, warmth, and advocacy. The Harvard Law Review is an entirely student-edited journal with the largest circulation of any law journal in the world, and was founded by Louis D. Brandeis in 1887. Barack Obama was the journal's first Black president.
Apsara Iyer's Education:
Apsara Iyer is a recent graduate from Yale, having received a degree in Economics, Math, and Spanish in 2016. She has worked at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Antiquities Trafficking Unit, where her interest in cultural heritage led her. She later went on to study law at Harvard Law School, where she joined the Harvard Law Review through a competitive process and has been involved in various other organizations such as the Harvard Human Rights Journal and the South Asian Law Students Association. Iyer's predecessors in the role include Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and former President Barack Obama and she has been praised by her predecessor for her intelligence, warmth, and advocacy.
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