The team

Jónas Már Torfason

Lawyer, Specialist Counsel

Education and Qualifications

  • University of Iceland, Mag. jur. 2021
  • University of Iceland, BA Law 2019
  • Menntaskólinn í Reykjavík College 2016

Employment

  • Réttur – Aðalsteinsson & Partners since 2025
  • Plesner (Kaupmannahöfn) 2022-2025
  • LOGOS 2019-2022
  • Fréttablaðið 2018-2019

Other activities

  • Chairman of the Committee on Temporary Reimbursements in Respect of Film Making in Iceland since 2025
  • Deputy member of Reykjavik North Elections Commission since 2025
  • Deputy board member Icelandic Student Entrepreneurial Fund 2023-2025
  • Icelandic Basketball Association’s Disciplinary and Complaints Commission 2021-2025 (chairman from 2023)
  • Legal volunteer Frú Ragnheiður (Red Cross harm reduction program) 2020-2021
  • Local election board (Smárinn) during 2020 presidential elections
  • Deputy to the chairman of Icelandic Student Services 2018-2025
  • Executive Director of the University of Iceland Student Council 2018-2019
  • University of Iceland Student Council 2016-2017
  • Board of Kópavogur Marketing Agency 2016-2017
  • Deputy board member of the Icelandic Student Loan Fund 2014-2016
  • Board of the Icelandic Upper Secondary Student Union 2014-2016
  • Committee on leisure activities and preventive measures Kópavogur municipality 2014-2015

Teaching and Research

  • Assisting Dr Aðalheiður Jóhannsdóttir with the book Loftslagsréttur (Climate Law)
  • Teaching in law students’ association pre-exam courses in law of obligations and legal philosophy
  • Teaching assistant in property law

Research/Publications

  • Liquid staking tokens – financial instruments or crypto assets? (with Rasmus Mandøe Jensen and Simon Lindvig Rasmussen)
  • Lexology’s Fintech summary (Denmark) 2023-2026 (with Rasmus Mandøe Jensen)
  • Do consumer price indexed loans contain derivatives? – Úlfljótur 2023, 1st issue.
  • Prudential safeguards in the banking sectors following the financial crash – Vísbending economics and business journal 2021, 10th issue (with Freyr Snæbjörnsson)
  • Prudential safeguards in the banking sectors following the financial crash – Vísbending economics and business journal 2021, 10th issue (with Freyr Snæbjörnsson)
  • The distinction between property rights and obligational rights – Mag.jur. thesis in law 2021.
  • The experience of pre-emptive rights of public entities on agricultural land – BA thesis in law 2019.

The team