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About Claire Palley
- Claire Dorothea Taylor Palley, OBE (born 17 February 1931) is a South African academic and lawyer who specialises in constitutional and human rights law.
- She became a professor of law at Queen's University Belfast in 1970, making her the first woman to be a law professor in the UK, and was the first to become a dean of a law school in the UK in 1971, also at Queen's University Belfast.
- She moved to become a professor of law at the University of Kent in 1973, and was then Principal of St Anne's College, Oxford from 1984 to 1991.
- She also advised on constitutional law in Southern Rhodesia, Cyprus and Northern Ireland, and served as the UK's representative on the United Nations Sub-Commission on the Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities.
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