Helga Law Journal - 01.01.2021, Page 5

Helga Law Journal Vol. 1, 2021
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Student Editor
Kolfinna Tómasdóttir
Tel. +354 8464065
kot3@hi.is
Student Editorial Board
Baldur S. Blöndal
Orri Heimisson
Cover Design
Jóna Diljá Jóhannsdóttir
Academic Editors
Dr. Kári Hólmar Ragnarsson
Assistant Professor of Law, University of Iceland
(editor-in-chief)
Dr. M. Elvira Mendez Pinedo
Professor of Law, University of Iceland
Hafsteinn Dan Kristjánsson
Lecturer in Law, Balliol College, University of Oxford;
Adjunct Lecturer of Law, University of Iceland
María Rún Bjarnadóttir
Director for Internet Safety at the Icelandic National Commissioner for
Police; Adjunct Lecturer of Law, University of Akureyri
ELSA Iceland
Reykjavík, Iceland
2021
ISSN 2772-1264
ISSN 2772-1272 (Electronic version)
From the Editor
Dear reader.
This issue of Helga is the first issue of the newly established law journal of ELSA
Iceland. The publication marks a milestone for the young association that was re-
founded in the summer of 2017 by me and six other law students at the University
of Iceland. We felt the need for an internationally focused law student’s association
in Iceland and this law journal is a part of that work. When choosing a name for
this law journal the Student Editorial Board wanted to honour Icelandic women
that are a part of Icelandic history, but the name of the law journal refers to Helga
Arnardóttir, one of the first women in history to step foot on Iceland.
I am honoured to have had knowledgeable and experienced writers in this
first issue. The first article is Um samleik eðlisréttar og ius gentium í hugmyndafræðilegri
þróunarsögu þjóðaréttarins by Pétur Dam Leifsson who is a judge at the Reykjavík
District Court and Adjunct Associate Professor of Law at the University of
Iceland. The second article is Climate Change and Efforts to Stabilise Otherwise
Fluctuating Maritime Entitlements by Dr. Snjólaug Árnadóttir, Assistant Professor and
Postdoctoral Fellow at Reykjavík University, a member of the International Law
Association Committee on International Law and Sea Level Rise and a guest
lecturer at the University of Iceland. The third article is Final Act in the Tragedy of
the Commons: Will using compulsory conciliation to solve the North East Atlantic Mackerel
Dispute result in a happier ending? by Helga Guðmundsdóttir, an Associate at Clifford
Chance LLP in Brussels and a lecturer at the United Nations-mandated University
for Peace. At the end of this issue is the report of a Legal Research Group on the
right to protest, but law students from ELSA Iceland, ELSA LSE and ELSA
Nanterre contributed their work to the project.
To found a new law journal is not a one person job. I am extremely grateful
to Baldur Blöndal, President of ELSA Iceland 2019-2020, and Orri Heimisson, for
their contribution to making this happen. I also want to thank the Academic
Editors who took a chance on a few students who wanted to build something new,
especially Dr. Kári Hólmar Ragnarsson, editor-in-chief.
This law journal is a contribution to the large discussion of international law.
With a young and expanding organisation I am excited to see how this law journal
will grow with ELSA Iceland in the upcoming years and how Icelandic law
students can continue to grow through exciting opportunities in the field of law
abroad.
Kolfinna Tómasdóttir
Student Editor of Helga
Prentun: Svansprent