Supreme Court Attorney Arnar Þór Stefánsson joined LEX in 2004 after graduating with a law degree from the University of Iceland. Previously he worked for a short while for the Althing Ombudsman and was assistant judge at the Supreme Court from 2006-2007. Arnar Þór is one of the most experienced litigator at LEX and has litigated well over 300 cases before the District and Supreme courts of Iceland as well as before the EFTA-court, for companies, individuals and public entities. Arnar specilises in litigation, and also has expert knowledge in the field of public administration, construction and urban planning, tendering, real estate, employment and labour law and obligation law. Arnar has taught in the faculty of law in the University of Iceland and Reykjavík University as well as teaching in bar admission courses for district court certification.

Bar Admissions
The Supreme Court
The Appeal Court
The District Courts

Education
Admitted to practice before the District Court in June 2005.
Cand. Jur. from the University of Iceland Faculty of Law in June 2004.
Exchange student at the Copenhagen University Faculty of Law in 2003.

Significant Accomplishments
Student Council of Reykjavik Secondary, 1998-1999.
Member of the Board of Vaka, the Democratic Student Alliance of the University of Iceland 2000-2001.
Nordic Human Rights Moot Court Competition 2002.
Orator Moot Court Competition 2003.
Chairman of the Electoral Board of the Students' Association of the University of Iceland 2004.
Member of the Board of the National Youth Organisation of the Independence Party 2005-2007.
Member of the Board of Directors of the CODEX Publishing Company 2005-2008.

Teaching and research.
Supervision of discussion projects in property law at the University of Iceland since 2005.
Instructor in law of obligations at Reykjavik University 2005.
Lecturer in Administrative Law II at the University of Iceland since 2006.
B.A. thesis advisor in administrative law at the University of Iceland since 2007.
Articles on legal matters in Ulfljotur, including articles on property buying law, administrative law and legislation on salmon and trout fishing.

Professional Associations
Board of the Icelandic Bar Association, 2016-2018, vice-chairman 2017-2018
Law Committe of the Icelandic Bar Association 2013-2014
Board of CODEX Publishing 2005-2008
Secretary of a committee on a revision of the law on salmon- and trout fishing 200
Referee at the Football Association of Iceland since 2011, national referee since 2016


Professional Activities and Experience
LEX 2007-
Supreme Court of Iceland 2006-2007
LEX 2004-2006
Althing Ombudsman 2004


Lecturer in Public Administration at University of Iceland 2006 – 2014
Lecturer in Property law at University of Iceland 2005
Lecturer in law of Obligation at Reykjavík University 2005 and 2008-2009
Lecturer in Procedural law at University of Iceland 2014-2016
Lecturer in criminal law and procedure for the bar admission courses for district court certification from 2015
Supervision on number of BA and Master‘s theses

Ógilding stjórnvaldsákvarðana, Úlfljótur, 2005
Um veiðifélög, Úlfljótur, 2007 (co-writer Karl Axelsson, Supreme Court Attorney)
Editorial board on publication on published abstracts of judgments rendered by the European Court of Human Rights 2008-2013