Apsara Iyer Becomes First Indian American President Of Harvard Law Review

An Indian-American woman will lead the Harvard Law Review for the first time in 136 years. Apsara Iyer is the first Indian-American woman to serve as president of the Harvard Law Review, a prestigious newspaper that has been around for 136 years.

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Harvard Law School student takes over for Priscila Coronado, who has been looking into art crime and repatriation since 2018.

"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 received a BA in Economics, Mathematics, and Spanish from Yale in 2016.?

According to a press release from the Harvard Law Review, she earned an MPhil as a Clarendon Scholar at Oxford.?

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Then, in 2018, she joined the Manhattan District Attorney's Antiquities Trafficking Unit (ATU) because of her passion for archaeology and indigenous cultures.

At the ATU, she looked into art theft and worked with federal and international police to return more than 1,100 stolen works of art to 15 different countries.

Iyer enrolled at Harvard Law School in the fall of 2020, where she is a student in the International Human Rights Clinic and a member of the South Asian Law Students Association.

Committed to fighting illicit antiquities trafficking, Iyer took a leave of absence from Harvard Law School in 2021–22 to return to the DA's Office, where she worked on an international antiquities trafficking investigation and became the deputy of the ATU.

"Apsara has changed the lives of many editors for the better, and I know she will continue to do so. From the start, she has impressed her fellow editors with her remarkable intelligence, thoughtfulness, warmth, and fierce advocacy. The Law Review is extremely lucky to have her lead this institution," Iyer's predecessor, Coronado, said.

The Law Review, founded in 1887 by future Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis (LLB 1887), is an entirely student-edited journal with the largest circulation of any law journal worldwide.

Former President Barack Obama was the journal's first black president.

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