Apsara Iyer becomes first Indian American woman president of Harvard Law Review

Apsara Iyer becomes first Indian American woman president of Harvard Law Review

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Category : Appointment/Resignation Published on: February 09 2023

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Apsara Iyer, an Indian American student at the Harvard Law School has been elected as the 137th president of the Harvard Law Review.
A second-year student at Harvard Law School, Iyer became the first woman from the community to be elected to the coveted position in the prestigious publication’s 136-year history.
Iyer was elected the 137th president of the Harvard Law Review, which was founded in 1887 and is one of the oldest student-run legal scholarship publications.
The Law Review, operated under the Harvard Law School, is an organisation that reviews and selects articles published in the legal field.
Iyer, who has been working in art crime investigation and repatriation since 2018, succeeds Priscila Coronado as the president.
In 2018, she joined the Manhattan District Attorney’s Antiquities Trafficking Unit (ATU).

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