130-year-old Harvard Law Review Elects Nigerian As First Black Woman President

Nigeria’s Imelme Umana has been elected President of the Harvard Law Review (HLR) .

Imelme, a doctorate candidate at the Harvard Law School, becomes the First Black Woman to be elected President.

The Harvard Law Review is a student-run organization with the primary purpose of publishing  a journal of legal scholarship. The Review comes out monthly from November through June and has roughly 2,500 pages per volume. The organization is formally independent of the Harvard Law School and student editors make all editorial and organizational decisions together with a professional business staff of three do carry out day-to-day operations.

Imelme Umana joins former US President Barack Obama who got elected back in 1990 as the First Black Man to become President of the Harvard Law Review (HLR). Both of them enjoy a unique position in the history of the African Presidency of the Harvard Law Review (HLR).