Alice Tay

Professor Alice Erh-Soon Tay AM
President of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission
In office 1998–2003
Preceded by	Sir Ronald Wilson
Succeeded by	John von Doussa
Personal details
Born	1934 Singapore
Died	2004
Nationality	Australian

Alice Erh-Soon Tay was an Australian academic lawyer, an eminent jurisprudence and comparative law scholar. She was president of the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission from 1998 to 2003.

Tay was born in Singapore in 1934. She was admitted to the Singapore Bar in 1957 and practiced as a criminal lawyer. In 1959 she moved to the new law department at the University of Malaya (now the National University of Singapore).

She moved to Australia at the age of 27. She obtained her PhD from the Australian National University in 1965 and an LLD (honoris causa) from Edinburgh in 1989. She was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 1985 for her contributions to teaching and research in law.

Tay had a long academic career at the University of Sydney, with 26 years as the Challis Professor of Jurisprudence from 1975. She was a part-time Commissioner of the Australian Law Reform Commission from 1982 to 1987. During her time at the ALRC, she contributed to several major inquiries—including The Recognition of Aboriginal Customary Laws (ALRC 31, 1986); Privacy (ALRC 22, 1983); Contempt (ALRC 35, 1987) and Matrimonial Property (ALRC 39, 1987).

Tay married political philosopher and Marxist scholar Eugene Kamenka after her arrival in Australia. He died in 1994 and she remarried Guenther Doeker-Mach in 2004 before her death in April 2004.

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