Apsara Iyer is a second-year Indian-American student at Harvard Law School and has been elected president of the prestigious Harvard Law Review. She is the first-ever woman from the Indian-American community to be elected for this esteemed position
A report by The Harvard Crimson, a student newspaper of Harvard University, stated that Apsara Iyer was elected as the 137th president of the Harvard Law Review, founded in 1887 and is among the oldest student-run legal scholarship publications
The Crimson report said that Apsara Iyer graduated from Yale in 2016 and received a bachelor’s degree in Economics, Math and Spanish
Iyer’s interest in understanding the “value of cultural heritage” led her to work in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Antiquities Trafficking Unit, which tracks stolen art and artefacts. She worked in the office in 2018 before joining the Law School. Iyer took a leave of absence after her first year studying law to return to the role
Apsara Iyer joined the Harvard Law Review following a competitive process called “write-on,” where Harvard Law School students “rigorously fact-check a document and provide commentary on a recent State or Supreme Court Case"
Apsara Iyer was also previously involved in the Law School’s Harvard Human Rights Journal and the National Security Journal and is also a member of the South Asian Law Students Association
Apsara Iyer said in an interaction with The Harvard Crimson that she plans to include more editors in reviewing and selecting articles and upholding the publication’s reputation for “high-quality” work
Priscila Coronado, the immediate predecessor of Iyer at Harvard Law Review, said, "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”
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