Heather McRobie

Heather Katharine McRobie (born 1985) is a British-Australian writer and professor at Bifröst University. She studied Modern History and Politics at Oxford University before going on to pursue further studies at the University of Sarajevo and McGill University.

She completed a doctorate in comparative constitutional law and human rights law, focused on the Egyptian constitutions since the 2011 Egyptian revolution, at the Oxford Law Faculty. She also worked for human rights NGOs in Jordan and Berlin.

She held post-doctoral positions in Tel Aviv and Moscow, before moving to Reykjavik to begin her current work on the Icelandic constitution.

McRobie's debut novel Psalm 119 (2008), published when the author was just 23, was awarded the Helene du Coudray Prize. Her first non-fiction book Literary Freedom: a Cultural Right to Literature came out in 2013.

In a wide-ranging journalistic career, she has written for the Guardian, Al Jazeera, the New Statesman, the Times Literary Supplement, The Globe and Mail and The Jewish Quarterly, among many other publications. She was also an editor of the online outlet openDemocracy. Her writing has focused on politics, society, conflict and human rights across the UK, the Balkans, Middle East and former Soviet Union.

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

As an academic, she currently researches and lectures on constitutional law, human rights law, and the philosophy of law, and is completing a book on comparative constitutional law.