Allansdottir primarily works on
space law, having started as an academic in human rights and constitutional law. 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
Reykjavík to begin her current work on the Icelandic constitution. McRobie's debut novel
Psalm 119 (2008), published when the author was 23, was awarded the Helene du Coudray Prize. Her first non-fiction book,
Literary Freedom: a Cultural Right to Literature, came out in 2013. She has written for the
Guardian,
Al Jazeera, the
New Statesman, the
Times Literary Supplement,
Salon,
Foreign Policy, and
The Globe and Mail, among many other publications. She was also an editor of the online outlet
openDemocracy. Her non-academic 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. Her first book on space law,
New Perspectives in Outer Space Law, co-authored with Naman Anand, will be published by Springer in 2025. In 2019, she was a semi-finalist for the
Julia Child Fellowship at
Le Cordon Bleu culinary school. According to an interview in 2019, she can speak some
Arabic,
French,
Russian,
Mandarin and
Icelandic but is only fluent in English. 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. In 2022, she joined
The University of Law as an Academic Tutor, and as of 2024 is a visiting fellow at the
Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge, and lectures on law at
Birkbeck University in London, where she is deputy director of LLB and LLM. == References ==