Professor Colleen Murphy has published The Conceptual Foundations of Transitional Justice with Cambridge University Press.
The description of the book on the publisher website is as follows:
"Many countries have attempted to transition to democracy following conflict or repression, but the basic meaning of transitional justice remains hotly contested. In this book, Colleen Murphy analyses transitional justice - showing how it is distinguished from retributive, corrective, and distributive justice - and outlines the ethical standards which societies attempting to democratize should follow. She argues that transitional justice involves the just pursuit of societal transformation. Such transformation requires political reconciliation, which in turn has a complex set of institutional and interpersonal requirements including the rule of law. She shows how societal transformation is also influenced by the moral claims of victims and the demands of perpetrators, and how justice processes can fail to be just by failing to foster this transformation or by not treating victims and perpetrators fairly. Her book will be accessible and enlightening for philosophers, political and social scientists, policy analysts, and legal and human rights scholars and activists."
Murphy is about to embark on a series of panels with academics to discuss the book in Milan, Cape Town, and here in Champaign. She will also be delivering a series of lectures on the book, primarily at law schools in New Zealand and Australia, including the keynote for the Australian Society for Legal Philosophy and another keynote at McMaster University of the Colombian Peace Process with the FARC.
More information about the book and where to purchase at Cambridge University Press