Alice Erh-Soon Tay AM FASSA (1934–2004) was an Australian academic lawyer, an eminent jurisprudence and comparative law scholar.
[2] Tay had a long academic career at the University of Sydney, with 26 years as the Challis Professor of Jurisprudence from 1975.
[6] She was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 1986[7] and was awarded an LLD (honoris causa) from the University of Edinburgh in 1989.
[8] The Annual Alice Tay Lecture in Law and Human Rights was established in 2005 by the Herbert and Valmae Freilich Foundation at the Australian National University.
This lecture was established to acknowledge both Tay's championship of human rights in Australia and her contributions as a member of the Foundation's board over a number of years.