Apsara Iyer

Apsara Iyer is a legal scholar, an art crime investigator, and is the 137th President of the Harvard Law Review.[1][2] She is the first Indian American woman to be elected to that position.[2]

Early life and education

Iyer was born in Chicago and raised in West Lafayette, Indiana.[1][3] She attended the prestigious high school Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts and then Yale University, where she received a bachelor's in Economics, Math and in Spanish.[2] In 2012 she was a finalist for the Rhodes Scholarship. She was awarded the Clarendon Fund scholarship to pursue graduate studies at University of Oxford, where she received an MPhil in Economics.[4]

Career

Work to Counter Antiquities Trafficking and Art Crime

In 2018, Iyer joined the Antiquities Trafficking Unit within the New York County District Attorney, working with Col. Matthew Bogdanos on major cases related to art and crime, the illicit antiquities trade, and looted art.[1][5] She was instrumental in the return of numerous looted, stolen, and trafficked cultural objects to their country of origin.[6][7][8][9][10][11][12] She was involved in the repatriation of cultural property to 15 different countries, amounting to the return of over 1100 stolen cultural objects.[4]

In 2021, she spent a summer working with Donna Yates at Maastricht University researching the application of statutes of limitations in cultural property cases as a Chayes International Public Service Fellow.[4][13]

Prior to this, Iyer was a volunteer researcher in the Trafficking Culture research consortium and at the University of Pennsylvania's Penn Cultural Heritage Center..[14]

Personal life

She speaks five languages, including Hindi, Spanish, and Tamil.[3][5]

References
  1. Raymond, Nate (2023-01-31). "Harvard Law Review picks antiquities theft sleuth as new president". Reuters. Retrieved 2023-02-10.
  2. "Harvard Law Review Elects Apsara Iyer as 137th President | News | The Harvard Crimson". www.thecrimson.com. Retrieved 2023-02-10.
  3. D'Arcy, David (2023-04-03). "Antiquities trafficking investigator appointed president of Harvard Law Review—a position once held by Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Barack Obama". The Art Newspaper. Retrieved 2023-04-10.
  4. "Apsara Iyer '24 elected president of the Harvard Law Review". Harvard Law School. Jan 30, 2023. Retrieved 2023-02-10.
  5. Mashberg, Tom (2021-11-17). "Looking for a Stolen Idol? Visit the Museum of the Manhattan D.A." The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-02-10.
  6. "D.A. Bragg Returns Stolen Antiquity to The Palestinian Authority". Manhattan District Attorney's Office. 2023-01-05. Retrieved 2023-02-10.
  7. "D.A. Bragg Returns 307 Stolen Antiquities to the People Of India". Manhattan District Attorney's Office. 2022-10-17. Retrieved 2023-02-10.
  8. "D.A. Bragg Returns 142 Antiquities Valued at Nearly $14 Million to the People of Italy". Manhattan District Attorney's Office. 2022-07-20. Retrieved 2023-02-10.
  9. "D.A. Bragg Announces Return of Antiquities Looted from the Iraqi Museum in 2003". Manhattan District Attorney's Office. 2022-12-14. Retrieved 2023-02-10.
  10. "D.A. Bragg Returns 58 Stolen Antiquities to the People of Italy". Manhattan District Attorney's Office. 2022-09-06. Retrieved 2023-02-10.
  11. "Black Rock of Durga Stele returned to people of Nepal". www.ice.gov. Retrieved 2023-02-10.
  12. Cambodia, U. S. Mission (2021-06-10). "Manhattan D.A.'s Office Returns 27 Antiquities to Cambodia". U.S. Embassy in Cambodia. Retrieved 2023-02-10.
  13. Kunycky, Audrey. "Expanding their horizons". Harvard Law School. Retrieved 2023-02-10.
  14. "Participants". The Visual Heritage Project. Retrieved 2023-02-10.
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