Vidir Smari Petersen began working at LEX alongside his studies in September 2009. He finished his master's degree from the University of Iceland in 2011, was admitted to practice before the district courts in May that year and before the Supreme Court in 2017. In 2015, Vidir finished an LL.M. degree from Harvard Law School, where he focused on subjects in the field of Law and Economics and Competition Law. At Harvard, his paper on Interlocking Directorates was awarded the Law School's Manzini Prize for best paper in European Law and European Legal Thought. Vidir has been a Lecturer of Law on the Law Faculty of the University of Iceland since 2011 and in 2017 he was appointed as Adjunct Lecturer. The subjects that Vidir has taught include Civil Procedure, Law of Obligations and Administrative Law. Vidir has published articles in peer-review journals on various subjects.

Bar Admissions
The Supreme Court
The Appeal Court
The District Courts

Education
LL.M. degree from Harvard Law School 2015
Master's Degree from the University of Iceland 2011
Graduated from the Reykjavik College of Music in 2008

Professional Associations
Deputy Chairmain of the Complaints Committee of Consumer Goods and Services since 2020
The editor of the online publication of Ulfljotur (ulfljotur.com) 2017 - 2019
Member of the editorial board of the Bar Association's magazine 2017 - 2019
Member of the Editorial Board of Ulfljotur Law Review 2009 - 2010


Professional Activities and Experience
Adjunct on the Law Faculty of the University of Iceland since 2017. A lecturer on the faculty since 2011. Vidir has taught the following subjects:
Civil Procedure
Criminal Procedure
Administrative Law II
Administrative Law III
Law of Obligations I
Law of Obligations II
Property Law
Introduction to Law and Economics (a subject in the Economics department)
The Role of Lawyers and Judges in Civil and Criminal Procedure
Coached the faculty's team in the Nordic Moot Court Competition on Human Rights
Instructed teams in the Orator Moot Court Competition
Supervised BA and Master's theses

Law Clerk at the Supreme Court of Iceland 2015-2016

Thorgeir Orlygsson, Karl Axelsson and Vidir Smari Petersen. (2020). Property Law I. Reykjavik: Fons Juris.
Vidir Smari Petersen, Karl Axelsson and Thorgeir Orlygsson. (2019). Encumbrances – their establishment, their permanence and their scale and scope. Ulfljotur Law Review,72(3), 367-418.
Vidir Smari Petersen. (2019). The Uniqueness of water rights under Icelandic scope. Ulfljotur Law Review, 72(1), 95-132.
Vidir Smari Petersen. (2016). Interlocking Directorates in the European Union: An Argument for their Restriction. European Business Law Review, 27(6), 821-864.
Vidir Smari Petersen (2016). When should parties settle? Economic theories of settlement and how they relate to the research of 386 civil cases before the Supreme Court of Iceland. Timarit logfraedinga, 66(2), 189-223.
Fridrik Arni Fridriksson Hirst og Vidir Smari Petersen (2016). Efficiency and hindsight bias in tort law. Ulfljotur, 69(1), 5-35.
Valgerdur Solnes og Vidir Smari Petersen (2015): Reflections on Invalidation of Contract due to its unreasonableness in a recent ruling of the Icelandic Supreme Court. Timarit logfraedinga, 65(4), 611-633.
Vidir Smari Petersen. (2015). Expedited proceedings in civil cases. Ulfljotur, 68(4), 631 - 650
Vidir Smari Petersen (2013). The termination of the limitation of claims and its legal effect. Ulfljotur, 66(3), 335-384.