Jónas Már Torfason
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.