Apsara A. Iyer, a second-year law student at Harvard Law School is officially Harvard Law Review’s first Indian American woman president, The Harvard Crimson reports.
The Harvard Law Review is a student-run legal scholarship publication that was founded in 1887. Former editors include Supreme Court Justices Stephen Breyer, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, as well as former President Barack Obama.
According to Harvard Law Today, Iyer graduated from Yale in 2016 with a B.A. in Economics & Math and Spanish. She is passionate about art crimes and repatriation. I. 2018, she began working for the Manhattan District Attorney’s Antiquities Trafficking Unit, Harvard Crimson reports.
Iyer joined the law review after a thorough application process, where she fact checked a document and provided commentary on a Supreme Court case. She spoke highly of her experience with the publication.
“What’s been so meaningful to me is that the Law Review has been an amazing community of incredibly talented, passionate people,” Iyer told The Harvard Crimson. “And I feel like I’ve been able to be welcomed into this organization that’s filled with individuals who are so intelligent and so interested in different parts of the law.”
Former President Priscila E. Corando sung Iyer’s praises in a Law School press release.
“Apsara has changed the lives of many editors for the better, and I know she will continue to do so,” Coronado wrote. “From the start, she has impressed her fellow editors with her remarkable intelligence, thoughtfulness, warmth, and fierce advocacy.”
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