Hjalti Geir Erlendsson
Hjalti Geir holds a master's degree in law from the University of Iceland and an LL.M. degree from Columbia Law School in New York City.At LEX he primarily focuses on issues related to public administration, energy, environment and natural resources.
Hjalti Geir has extensive experience in counseling and dispute resolution in the field of property law, energy, natural resources and environmental law and has dealt with cases related to infrastructure development, energy production and natural resource utilization. Hjalti Geir also has comprehensive knowledge of the legal fields of public law, such as administrative law, European law, constitutional law, human rights regulations, and he provides a wide range of advice and advocacy in those fields for private parties, governmetnal agencies and municipalities. Hjalti Geir also has experience in the media, as he worked as a journalist while studying law.
- District Courts
- LEX2019-
- Parliamentary Ombudsman, lawyer2018-2019
- European Free Trade Association (EFTA) Secretariat in Brussels2016-2018
- Permanent Mission of Iceland to the United Nations in New York, internship2016
- LEX2013-2015
- Journalist for the Financial News of Iceland and the daily Morgunbladid alongside law school
- Columbia Law School, LL.M.2016
- District Court Attorney2014
- University of Iceland, mag.jur 2013
- Uppsala University in Sweden, Erasmus2012
- University of Iceland, BA in law2011
- University of Iceland, teacher in courses on land sale in the studies for real estate agent certification at the continuing education 2022-
- University of Iceland, assistant teacher in the nordic human rights moot court competition2015
- University of Iceland, assistant teacher in legal theory 2012-2013
- Icelandic Gymnastics Federation, legal committee
- Gymnastics coach 2004-2014
- Úlfljótur Law Review, editorial board 2010-2011
- Orator, law student's association, board member2009-2010