Harvard Law School student named 137th president of the Harvard Law Review

Apsara A. Iyer, a second year law student at Harvard Law School, has been elected the 137th president of the Harvard Law Review. A report in The Harvard Crimson stated that she is the first Indian American woman to hold the position.

As the Law Review president, Iyer said she aims to include more editors in the process and uphold the publication's reputation for high-quality work.

I think that right now I'm focused on making sure we keep the lights on and everything going, Iyer said.

The Law Review was founded in 1887 and is one of the oldest student-run legal scholarship publications. Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Ketanji Brown Jackson and Stephen Breyer, along with former President Barack Obama, are Iyer's distinguished predecessors.

Iyer's predecessor Priscila E. Coronado said the publication is extremely lucky to have Iyer at the helm. She said that she cannot wait to see what Volume 137 will achieve under her leadership.

Coronado wrote that Apsara has changed the lives of many editors for the better, and I know she will continue to do so.

She has impressed her fellow editors with her remarkable intelligence, thoughtfulness, warmth, and fierce advocacy, according to the Law School.

Apsara A. Iyer grew up in Indiana and attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. She graduated from Yale in 2016 and holds a bachelor s degree in economics and math as well as Spanish.

Apsara Iyer joined Harvard Law Review after a competitive process called write-on HLS students have to fact-check a document and provide commentary on a recent Supreme Court case in the competition process.

Iyer was previously a member of the Harvard Human Rights Journal and the National Security Journal at Law School and is a member of the South Asian Law Students Association.