“Issues related to art, trafficked art and stolen art really intersect with a lot of different bodies of law,” she says. Before returning to Harvard, she held the job of supervising investigative analyst, a deputy with chief-of-staff duties in the Antiquities Trafficking Unit. She also worked on cases involving the smuggling of antiquities from India and Cambodia, which ended in guilty pleas from dealers. “In those 180 works, there were 180 stories,” says Iyer, who took a leave of one year from law school to work on the Steinhardt case. Steinhardt, a prominent financier and benefactor of museums, was banned by the court from collecting antiquities, an unprecedented penalty, although he avoided prison time. In 2021, she was co-author, with Matthew Bogdanos, of the “Statement of Facts in the Matter of a Grand Jury Investigation into a Private New York Antiquities Collector”, an inventory of objects and dealers associated with Michael Steinhardt, who surrendered 180 objects worth $70m that the New York District Attorney deemed to have been stolen from their countries of origin. Iyer brings some valuable and unusual experience to that office. She holds the one-year position previously held by Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Barack Obama. Apsara Iyer, 29 years old and three semesters away from completing her law degree at Harvard Law School, heads a staff of 98 editors. A veteran of the Antiquities Trafficking Unit of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office is now president of the Harvard Law Review.
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