Harvard Law Review: Apsara Iyer is an Indian-American student at the Harvard Law school who has been elected as the 137th president of the Harvard Law Review. As per a report in The Harvard Crimson, Harvard Law Review is one of the oldest student-run legal scholarship publication which was founded in 1887.
Apsara Iyer- Elected President of Harvard Law Review
Apsara Iyer has become the first woman from the community who has been elected president of the prestigious Harvard Law Review. Iyer said in The Crimson report that as Law Review president, she aims to “include more editors in the process of reviewing and selecting articles and upholding the publication’s reputation for “high-quality” work.” "I think that right now I’m just focused on making sure we keep the lights on and everything going,” Iyer said.
Apsara Iyer's Education
Iyer’s distinguished predecessors in the role include Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and former president Barack Obama. The Crimson report said Iyer graduated from Yale in 2016 and received a bachelor’s degree in Economics and Math and Spanish. Iyer’s immediate predecessor Priscila Coronado said the publication is “extremely lucky” to have Iyer at the helm.
"Apsara has changed the lives of many editors for the better, and I know she will continue to do so," Coronado said. "From the start, she has impressed her fellow editors with her remarkable intelligence, thoughtfulness, warmth, and fierce advocacy." The Crimson said that 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 works of art and artifacts.
Iyer's Journey to Law School
Iyer worked in the office in 2018 before coming to the Law School, and took a leave of absence after her first year studying law to return to the role, it said. The report added that 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."
Iyer has previously been 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.
(with inputs from PTI)
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