Jóna Þórey Pétursdóttir

Education and qualifications

University of Edinburgh, LL.M Human Rights Law 2022
University of Iceland, Mag. jur., 2021.
University of Iceland, BA law, 2018
Commercial College of Iceland 2015

Employment

Réttur- Aðalsteinsson & Partners 2022
Assistant to dr. Valgerðar Sólnes, lector at the department of Law at the University of Iceland 2019-2021
President of the Student Council of the University of Iceland 2019-2020
Fulltingi – Tort law firm 2016-2019

Other activities

Board of Advisors of the Swedish Observatory for Human Rights Information 2023
Board of the Icelandic Student Loan Fund – Menntasjóður námsmanna 2022
Deputy delegate in the Climate Council of Iceland 2019-2024
Organizing team of the Icelandic School Strikes for Climate 2019-2020
Spokesperson of Röskva – samtaka félagshyggjufólks við Háskóla Íslands 2018-2019
Board of the Student Council of the University of Iceland 2018-2019
Board of the School of Social Science at the University of Iceland 2018-2019
Member of the Student Council of the University of Iceland 2018-2019
Student Delegate at the Faculty of Law at the University of Iceland 2017-2019
Moot Court Competition of Orator 2018
Chair of the Student Fund at the University of Iceland 2017-2018
Mentor for new students at the department of Law at the University of Iceland, 2017-2018
Editor in Chief of Orator Annual Paper 2017
Editor in Chief of Verzlunarskólablaðið – School Paper of the Commercial College of Iceland 2014-2015
Board of the Student Association of the Commercial College of Iceland 2014-2015

Teaching and research positions

Teacher at Orator’s refresher course in Tort Law I and II 2018-2022
Research and translations for the Human Rights Institute of the University of Iceland 2021-2022
Teaching assistant for a course in “Constitutional Law with a grasp of international law” at the University of Iceland 2019
Teaching assistant for a course in “Tort law I” at the University of Iceland 2018

Research/Publications

To what extent can the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment impact the weapons review of Article 36 of Additional Protocol I – LLM thesis 2022
Student rights in unemplolyment: “… funds from the government for doing nothing.” – MA thesis in law, 2021.
“Claimant’s additional claims for personal injury” – Bachelor thesis in law 2018