Dr. Colleen Murphy
Law | Political Philosophy | Ethics | Risk

About me

I am the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and the Roger & Stephany Joslin Professor of Law in the College of Law at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. I also hold courtesy appointments as a Professor of Philosophy and of Political Science and chair the campus committee for the Illinois Scholars at Risk Program.

Together with Brinton Lykes, I serve as the co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Transitional Justice.

My research

​My research expertise is in political philosophy, jurisprudence, and ethics. I am interested in the justice of dealing with systemic wrongdoing- past and present- and the moral dimensions of risk analysis and risk mitigation.

Law

Political philosophy

Ethics

Risk

Background

I received my PhD in Philosophy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and BA in Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame.