Colleen Murphy is the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and the Roger & Stephany Joslin Professor of Law in the College of Law. Dr. Murphy also holds courtesy appointments as a Professor of Philosophy and of Political Science. She is the Chair of the campus committee for the Illinois Scholars at Risk Program. Murphy's research focuses specifically on political reconciliation and transitional justice in response to entrenched injustice, and on the legal and ethical dimensions of risks. She is the author of The Conceptual Foundations of Transitional Justice (Cambridge University Press, 2017), which received the North American Society for Social Philosophy Book Award; A Moral Theory of Political Reconciliation (Cambridge University Press, 2010); as well as more than 70 articles and book chapters. She has also co-edited four volumes, including Technology and Equality (Roman & Littlefield, 2024). Murphy is the co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Transitional Justice and serves on the Editorial Boards of Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, FQP/PPI Filosofia e questioni Pubbliche/ Philosophy and Public Issues, Law and Philosophy, Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure, and the Palgrave Handbooks in the Philosophy of Law Book Series.  She has delivered more than 160 invited keynotes and lectures at universities throughout the United States and in 12 additional countries worldwide. She has also written or recorded more than a dozen popular op-eds and podcasts about her research for venues including the Boston Review, Chicago Tribune, The Conversation, and Ms. Magazine. Murphy holds a M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame.