Education

Career

Forum lögmenn (law firm) partner from 2004
Lögmenn Klapparstíg (law firm) partner from 1998
Jón Steinar Gunnlaugsson (law firm) 1995 – 1998
The Legal Service of the EFTA Surveillance Authority, Geneva and Brussels 1993 – 1995
Jón Steinar Gunnlaugsson Supreme Court Attorney 1991 – 1993
The House Financing Fund 1990 – 1991

Other activities

Appointed Attorney of the Embassy of France in Iceland from 1996
Ad hoc College Member of the EFTA Surveillance Authority 1998 – 2002
Ad hoc Member of the Appeal Committee on Competition Matters in 1998
Ad-hoc Board Member of the Icelandic Commercial Arbitration Court in 1999
Member of the Board of the European Law Institution of the University of
Reykjavik from 2004
Board Member of the Icelandic Bar Association from 2005 – 2007
Appointed by the Competition Authority in 2005 to perform the competition assessment of the merger of part of Burðarás with Landsbanki Íslands and part of Burðarás with Straumur Investment Bank
Appointed as an arbitrator at the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce in 2008
Appointed with 3 other lawyers in 2010 by the Parliament to assess a draft Agreement between Iceland, United Kingdom and the Netherlands on the Icesave accounts of Landsbanki Íslands hf
Appointed permanently by the Competition Authority in 2013 to a Committee monitoring equal access on the Icelandic telecommunications market.
Appointed from 1 January 2017 to the Court of Arbitration for Sports.
Appointed Deputy judge at the Court Court of Review from 2021.

Practice Areas

Teaching and research

Adjunct in Civil law procedure at the law faculty of University of Reykjavik 2005
Part time lecturer at the Law Faculty of the University of Reykjavík in European Law 2004 in procedural law.
Part time lecturer at the law faculty of the University of Iceland in European Law 1992 – 1997
Part time lecturer at the law faculty of the University of Reykjavik in EU and EEA law from 2011.
On The European Court of Justice, The Icelandic Law Journal 1990
Legal procedure at the European Court of Justice. Lecture at NORFEIR seminar in Oslo, Norway in October 1991
On the ruling of the EFTA Court in the case of Erla María Sveinbjörnsdóttir v. Iceland. Lecture at the Icelandic Bar Association in 1999
The Icelandic legislation on agriculture and the competition rules. Lecture at the annual meeting of the Association of dairy producers in 2000
Excessive taxation and quantitative restrictions according to the EEA Agreement. Lecture at the University of Akureyri, 2005
Alcohol Advertising and EEA law – Lecture at the Law Faculty of University of Reykjavik in 2006
On the ruling of the EFTA Court in the case of Þór Kolbeinsson v. Iceland. Magazine of the Icelandic Bar Association in 2011
A chapter on The practicing bar in the EFTA pillar – Iceland, in The handbook of EEA law 2015

Languages

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