Lára Herborg Ólafsdóttir is a licensed attorney before the district courts. Lára specializes in Intellectual Property and Technology Law. She graduated from UC Berkeley in 2018 with an LL.M degree in Law & Technology. Her experience includes assisting clients on strategic licensing and technology transactions matters. Lara advises clients on a broad range of IP and Technology matters, including copyrights, fintech, open source software and data protection compliance. Lára has held many lectures and written articles on the intersection between law and technology.

Admitted to practice before:

• The District Courts

Career

• LEX since 2019
• DLA Piper, Luxembourg, 2018-2019
• Juris, 2011-2018
• Arion Bank, 2011
• Landsbanki Islands hf. (Winding-up Board), 2009-2011

Education

• LL.M. (Law & Technology), UC Berkeley, 2018
• District Court Attorney 2015
• University of Reykjavík, Master of Law, 2013
• University of Reykjavík, B.A. Law, 2011

Languages

• English
• Danish
• German

Teaching

• Lecturer in Fintech and Law at Reykjavík University from 2021
• Lecturer in Technology- and Computer Law at Reykjavik University from 2019
• Part time lecturer in Methodology at the University of Reykjavík, 2011-2017
• Guest lecturer in Contract Law and Construction Law in the MPM program at Reykjavík University, 2013
• Supervised a Master´s thesis on blockchain technology and the law, 2018

Publications

• Contributor to an international report: Technology Governance in a time of crisis, COVID-19 related decision support, published by the Human Technology Foundation. Accessible here: https://www.lex.is/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Technology-Governance-in-a-Time-of-Crisis-COVID-19-Related-Decision-Support.pdf
• Lára Herborg Ólafsdóttir and Sindri M. Stephensen (2019). Artificial Intelligence and Copyright, Tímarit lögfræðinga, 157-181
• Lára Herborg Ólafsdóttir and Olivier Reisch (2018). GDPR in the world of smart devices, ACE (Wolters Kluwer)

Other activities

• On the Board of Directors of AFS Iceland, 2015-2017
• Associate Editor of Berkeley Technology Law Journal, 2017-2018
• Board member of Berkeley Information Privacy Law Association (BIPLA), 2017-2018