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 is a scholar and teacher in the areas of moral, political, and legal theory. Her 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) and of A Moral Theory of Political Reconciliation (Cambridge University Press, 2010). Murphy is the co-editor of several interdisciplinary edited volumes, including Technology and Inequality (Rowman & Littlefield 2024), Climate Change and its Impacts: Risks and Inequalities (Springer 2018), Risk Analysis of Natural Hazards (Springer 2015) and Engineering Ethics for a Globalized World (Springer 2015). She has also authored or co-authored more than 70 peer-review journal articles, law review articles, and anthologized book chapters. Murphy is co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Transitional Justice and also serves on the Editorial Boards of Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Law and Philosophy, Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure, and the Palgrave Handbooks in the Philosophy of Law Book Series. She has delivered more than 140 invited lectures at universities throughout the United States and in 12 additional countries worldwide.