Education

Supreme Court Attorney 1998

 

District Court Attorney 1992

 

The Law Faculty of the University of Iceland, cand. jur. 1990

 

Ludwig Maximilians Universitat Munchen 1983 – 1984

 

Hamrahlíð College 1982

 

Lycee Pablo Neruda, Grenoble 1979-1980

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

European law

Real estate law

Corporate law

Banking and finance

Litigation

Competition law

Contract law

Tort law

Administrative law

Insurance law

Employment- and construction law

Sports law

 

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

English

French

Danish

German

E-mail address

stefan@forum.is

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