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Heather McRobie

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Heather Katharine McRobie,also known professionally asHeather Allansdottir,[1]is a British-Australian[2]writer and academic.

Biography

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She studied Modern History and Politics atOxford Universitybefore going on to pursue further studies at theUniversity of SarajevoandMcGill UniversityinMontreal,Canada. Her move from Oxford to Montreal, aged 22, was allegedly inspired by her love of the Canadian singer-songwriterLeonard Cohen.[3][4]

During her time as an undergraduate at Oxford University, she was a member of the comedy groupThe Oxford Imps[5]and published creative writing in theMay Anthologiescollections in 2006[6]and 2007.[7]Whilst at sixth form, in 2003 she organised protests against the Iraq war with her classmate Samir Jeraj, theNew Statesmanjournalist.[8]

She completed a doctorate[9]in comparative constitutional law andhuman rights law,focused on the Egyptian constitutions[10]since the2011 Egyptian revolution,at the Oxford Law Faculty.[11]She also worked forhuman rightsNGOs in Jordan and Berlin.

She held post-doctoral positions inTel Aviv[12]andMoscow,[13]before moving toReykjavíkto begin her current work[14]on the Icelandic constitution.[15]

McRobie'sdebut novelPsalm 119(2008),[16]published when the author was 23,[17]was awarded the Helene du Coudray Prize.[18]

Her first non-fiction book,Literary Freedom: a Cultural Right to Literature,came out in 2013.[19]

In a wide-ranging journalistic career, she has written for theGuardian,Al Jazeera,theNew Statesman,theTimes Literary Supplement,Salon,Foreign Policy,andThe Globe and Mail,among many other publications.[20]She was also an editor of the online outletopenDemocracy.Her non-academic writing has focused on politics, society, conflict and human rights across the UK, the Balkans, Middle East and former Soviet Union.[21]

In an interview in 2018,[22]she said she would like to continue writing both fiction and non-fiction.

In 2019, she was a semi-finalist for theJulia ChildFellowship atLe Cordon Bleuculinary school.[23]

According to an interview in 2019, she can speak someArabic,French,Russian,MandarinandIcelandicbut is only fluent in English.[15]Elsewhere she has written satirically on her failure to become proficient in other languages.[24]

As an academic, she currently researches and lectures on constitutional law, human rights law,[25]and the philosophy of law, and is completing a book on comparative constitutional law.[15]In 2021, she has mentioned her developing interest inspace law.[26][27][28]

In 2022, she joinedThe University of Lawas an Academic Tutor.

References

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  1. ^"Heather Katharine Allansdottir | University of Oxford - Academia.edu".oxford.academia.edu.
  2. ^FM, Player."Dr Heather Katherine McRobie - on a life of perpetual learning"– via player.fm.[permanent dead link]
  3. ^Archived atGhostarchiveand theWayback Machine:Heather Allansdottir.YouTube.
  4. ^"In Which We Winter In Montreal - Home - This Recording".thisrecording.
  5. ^Archived atGhostarchiveand theWayback Machine:Punchup Episode 2 - Heather Allansdóttir.YouTube.
  6. ^https://archive.varsity.co.uk/658.pdf[bare URL PDF]
  7. ^O'Brien, Sean; Tóibín, Colm; Mobbs, Iain; Duric, Cath; Roark, Ryan (23 June 2007).Mays 15 - 2007.Varsity Publications Ltd.ISBN9780902240438– via Google Books.
  8. ^"The February 15, 2003 protest ten years on: Reflections on a decade".
  9. ^"Administrative and Constitutional Law".16 September 2015.
  10. ^YouTube, a Google company.YouTube.Archived fromthe originalon 13 February 2021.
  11. ^http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo-explore/search?query=any,contains,heather%20mcrobie&tab=local&search_scope=LSCOP_ALL&vid=SOLO&lang=en_US&offset=0[dead link]
  12. ^"Visiting Scholars From Previous Years".en-law.tau.ac.il.
  13. ^"From Revolution to Constitution: Law and politics in Egypt since 2011".24 March 2017.
  14. ^"Líta á hvern nemanda sem einstakling en ekki kennitölu".Skessuhorn.22 August 2019.
  15. ^abc"Meet Dr Heather McRobie our new full-time Associate professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law".Bifrost.is.
  16. ^"Review: Psalm 119 by Heather McRobie".the Guardian.29 August 2008.
  17. ^https:// pressreader /uk/the-jewish-chronicle/20070601/282076272444434– via PressReader.{{cite web}}:Missing or empty|title=(help)
  18. ^"Helene du Coudray Prize".maiapress.
  19. ^"StackPath".johnhuntpublishing.
  20. ^"Justice delayed".22 April 2022.
  21. ^"Podcast 3/23/2017".jewishvirtuallibrary.org.
  22. ^"SoundCloud - Hear the world's sounds".
  23. ^"Julia Child Scholarship Semi-Finalists | Le Cordon Bleu London".cordonbleu.edu.
  24. ^"How to screw up in Arabic".Salon.8 September 2012.
  25. ^Archived atGhostarchiveand theWayback Machine:Human Rights and Judaism with Dr. Heather Allansdottir and Rabbi Feldman.YouTube.
  26. ^Archived atGhostarchiveand theWayback Machine:Lifestyle with Dr. Mobi.. Guest: Heather Allansdottir.YouTube.
  27. ^"Heather Katharine McRobie, Space Lawyer! - the MindGlue Podcast".28 January 2021.
  28. ^Archived atGhostarchiveand theWayback Machine:Punchup Episode 2 - Heather Allansdóttir.YouTube.