The team

Sigrún Ingibjörg Gísladóttir

Appeal Court Attorney, Partner (on leave)

Education and qualifications

  • Appeal Court Attorney, 2019
  • Harvard Law School, LL.M, 2016
  • Attorney to the District Courts, 2013
  • University of Iceland, Mag. jur. 2012
  • University of Iceland, BA in law 2010
  • École Jeannine Manuel, International Baccalaureate 2006

Employment

  • Réttur- Aðalsteinsson & Partners from 2016
  • Forum lawyers 2011-2015
  • Embassy of Iceland in Brussels 2011-2012
  • Landsbankinn 2008-2010

Other activities

  • Board member of the Human Rights Institute of the University of Iceland 2018-
  • Board Member of Alliance Française in Iceland 2018-
  • Chairperson of the Refugee Committee (Ministry of Welfare) 2017-2018
  • Alternative Member of Parliament 2016-2017
  • Board Member of Icelandic Student Services, 2014-2015
  • Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court Competition, Washington DC 2011
  • President of Vaka, the Democratic student’s association 2009-2010
  • University Council of the University of Iceland, student representative 2008-2010
  • Student Council of the University of Iceland 2008-2010
  • Editorial Board of Úlfljótur Law Review 2008-2010

Teaching and research

  • Lecturer in Procedural law at Bifröst University
  • Lecturer in European law at the University of Iceland, Faculty of Law 2016, 2018
  • Clinical Research on the impacts and challenges of off-shore oil and gas production in Western Ghana, Harvard Law School 2016
  • Research assistant, research on the intersection of human rights and administrative law, Harvard Law School 2015
  • Teaching assistant in European law, University of Iceland 2011

Research/Publications

  • Small State Compliance with judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (LL.M. paper 2016)
  • The Saga of Þór Kolbeinsson: Challenges of Imagining State Liability for Judicial Infringements of EEA Law in Iceland (MA thesis in law 2012)

The team