The team

Alexander Hafþórsson

District Court Attorney, Senior Associate

Education and qualifications

  • District Court Attorney, 2021
  • Reykjavik University, ML in Law, 2021
  • Reykjavik University, BA in Law, 2019
  • Reykjavík Technical College, Icelandic Matriculation Examination, Computer Science, 2014

Employment

  • Réttur – Adalsteinsson & Partners, 2020–
  • The Complaints Committee on Transactions with Financial Firms, 2019–2023
  • FOCUS Law Firm G. Jonsson & Partners, 2019–2020
  • The Icelandic Child Support Collection Centre, 2018–2020
  • Tölvutek, 2008–2019
  • TRAUST legal, 2017–2018

Other activities

  • Legislative Committee, Barnaheill - Save the Children in Iceland, 2022–
  • EEA Moot Court Competition, 2019
  • University Newspaper, Reykjavik University, 2017–2018

Teaching and research

  • Teaching assistant for a course in Constitutional Law, Reykjavik University, 2020
  • Civil Procedure Research Study for Sindri M. Stephensen, Assistant Professor, Reykjavik University, 2020
  • Teacher at a refresher course in Administrative Law, Lögrétta, the student union for Law students in Reykjavik University, 2019

Publications

  • The rule of speciality in copyright law, Úlfljótur, Issue 3, 2023
  • Validity and formation of derivative contracts: a study of issues in case law of the Supreme Court of Iceland, ML Thesis, 2021
  • Validity of credit agreements when consumer credit agreements legislation is violated, BA Thesis, 2019

The team