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William E. Conklin, Professor of Law

Scholarly Presentations

2010:

  • “The Invisibility of the Americas and Africa in Hegel’s Image of Europe” at Conference of Representations of European Identity, October 1-3, School of Languages and Literatures, University of Guelph;
  • “Statelessness, National Security and Territorial Knowledge” at Conference on National Security and Torture, Faculty of Law, University of Windsor, March 3-4, 2010.

2009:

  • “The International Community of Peremptory Norms” at Annual Conference of Canadian IVR, May 24, 2009, Ottawa;
  • “The Ghost of Cemetery Road” at Annual Conference of Canadian Law Teachers (CALT), May 25, 2009 at Ottawa.
  • “A Phenomenological Approach to Legal Education” at Annual Conference of Canadian Law Teachers (CALT), May 27, 2009 at Ottawa.
  • “Cicero’s Theory of Ius Gentium” at World Classical Associations, Berlin, Germany, August 24, 2009.
  • 2008: Invited. “The Constitution of an Ethos” in Graduate Research Seminar, Birkbeck College, June 9, 2008.
  • Invited. Faculty Workshop re my Hegel Book, Birkbeck College, May 28, 2008.
  • Invited. “The Myth and Mysticism of Primordialism in Cicero’s Philosophy of Law” at Conference at Guelph University, March 15, 2008 on “Myth and Mystery”
  • 2006: Invited. “The Law of Law”, Workshop at Department of Law, Birkbeck College, University of London, December 1st, 2006; financed by British Academy.
  • Invited. “Levinas on Hegel and the Peoples of a Pre-Modern Social Order” at Levinas Conference, McGill University, September 17-18, 2006.
  • “Hegel’s Theory of Crime” at the Annual Conference of the Canadian Section of the International Association of Legal and Political Philosophy, York University, June 1st, 2006.
  • “Hegel’s Theory of the Barbarian with special reference to the Aboriginal Peoples of North America” at Canadian Law and Society Association”, York University, June 2nd, 2006.
  • “The Role of Metaphor in Canadian Constitutional Law of the formation of the Canadian State” at Annual Conference of Canadian Law and Society Association, York University, June 1st, 2006.
  • Invited. “The Problematic of the Feminist Interpretation of Sophocles’ Antigone”, Guest Lecture, Department of Classics, School of Languages and Literatures, University of Guelph, Friday, March 10, 2006.
  • 2005: Invited. “The Role of Metaphor in the Constitutional Rhetoric of the Formation of the Canadian State” at International Conference on ‘Rhetoric and Figures’ at Concordia University, October 21, 2005,
  • “Hegel”s Theory of International Law” at Annual Conference of Canadian Section of International Association of Social and Legal Philosophy, London Ontario, June 10, 2005
  • “Hegel’s Theory of a Written Constitution,” Joint Conference of Australian and Canadian Law and Society Associations, British Columbia, June 28-31, 2005
  • “The Social Crisis of the Canadian Constitution,” Joint Conference of Australian and Canadian Law and Society Associations, British Columbia, June 28-31, 2005

In 2004:

  • “The Preface, Hegel’s Legal Philosophy and the Crises of his Time” at National Conference of ‘Philosophers and their Times’, Winnipeg, May 30-31.
  • “Commentary on Paper about ‘Human Rights and Contemporary Times’” at National Conference of ‘Philosophers and their Times’, Winnipeg, May 30-31.
  • “The Crisis of Analytical Jurisprudence” at Department of Law, Birkbeck College, May 5th, 2004.
  • “Statelessness and Hersch Lauterpacht’s Theory of Law” at Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law, Cambridge on April 5th, 2004.
  • “A Problem in the Tradition of Analytical Jurisprudence” at Faculty of Law, Birmingham University, January 15, 2004.

In 2003:

  • “Sophocles’ Antigone and Two Theories of Law” at Dept of Classics, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, November 14th, 2003.
  • “The International Human Rights Committee” at Workshop on “The New International Human Rights”, Birkbeck College, University of London, June 12 - 15, 2003.
  • “Space, Time and Mass Expulsions during the 20th Century” at the Ash Colloquium, Clare Hall College, Cambridge University, June 17th, 2003.
  • * “The Structural Boundary of Legal Objectivity” at IVR World Congress of Legal and Political Philosophy, University of Lund, Sweden, August 12 -17, 2003.
  • * “The Three Senses of Morality in Ronald Dworkin’s Theory of Law” at IVR World Congress in Legal and Political Philosophy, August 12 -17, University of Lund, Sweden.
  • “Statelessness, National Identity and the European Community Law” at IVR World Congress in Legal and Political Philosophy, August 12 -17, University of Lund, Sweden.

In 2002:

  • “Space, Time and the Twilight of Bernhard Waldenfels’ Theory of a Legal Structure” at Symposium on Waldenfels’ Legal Philosophy, Tilburg University, December 20 -22, Tilburg, Netherlands.
  • “Two Models of the Semiotics of Law and the President’s Military Tribunals Regs” at “Program for Semiotics”, University of Toronto, September 8th, 2002.
  • “Why States Need a Foreigner” at Annual Conference of Ontario Philosophers Association, Waterloo University, September 9th, 2002.
  • “The Need of the Sovereign State for an Outsider: Lessons of Sophocles’ Antigone and Kafka’s The Trial, Humanities Annual Lecture, Humanities Research Group, University of Windsor, Feb12/02.
  • “Why the Legal Structure of a Modern State Needs an Outsider: Lessons from Franz Kafka” at Annual Conference of ‘Law and American Culture,’ Toronto, March 13-16.
  • “The Production of an Ethnic Outsider in the Modern Sovereign State” at the 2nd International Conference on Hierarchy and Power in the History of Civilisations, July 4-7, 2002, St Petersburg,
  • “Lon Fuller and his Theory of an Unwritten Legal Language” at the Forum for Legal and Political Philosophy, Cambridge University, June 12th, 2002.

In 2001:

  • "The Problematic of Statelessness and International Human Rights Law" at Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, Cambridge University, March 2, 2001
  • "The Invisible Origins of Modern Legal Positivism" at Centre for Law & Society, Edinburgh University, April 26, 2001.
  • "The Structuralism of Ronald Dworkin's Theory of Law" at Faculty of Law Ph.D. Jurisprudence Group, Cambridge University, May 25, 2001

In 1999:

  • "Semiotics and Legal Formalism", Guest Lecture, Dept of English, University of Toronto, February 24th, 1999.
  • "Mapping out a Graduate Program in Legal Theory" at Faculty of Law, University of Leicester, December 18th, 1999
  • * "The Invisible Origins of Thomas Hobbes Civil Laws" at Cdn Association of Political Science, Sherbrooke University, June 6th, 1999
  • "Is there a Tradition of Legal Positivism?" at Canadian Section of International Association for Legal and Political Philosophy, Sherbrooke University, June 8th, 1999
  • "The Structuralism of John Austin's Theory of Law" at World Congress of Legal and Political Philosophy (IVR) at Pace University, New York City, June 24th-29th, 1999
  • "The Divine Origins of Legal Positivism" at Critical Legal Studies Conference, Birkbeck College, September 17th-20th, 1999

In 1998:

  • "The Assimilation of `the People' into the Modern Legal Discourse" at 12th Roundtable on Legal Semiotics, Penn State University, April 16th to 19th, 1998
  • "Hans Kelsen's Theory of Natural Law" at International Assoc for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, Ottawa University, May 31st, 1998
  • "Author Meets Panel: Bill Conklin's The Phenomenology of Modern Legal Discourse at Canadian Law and Society Association, Ottawa University, June 1st, 1998
  • "Legal Truth, the Body and the Children of Davis Inlet" at Canadian Law and Society Association at Ottawa University, June 1st, 1998
  • "The Assimilation of the other in the Canadian Internment Cases" at Canadian Law and Society Association, at Ottawa University, June 1st, 1998.
  • "Discussant: Law and Morality: Dworkin and Habermas" at American Law & Society Association, Aspen Colarado, June 5th, 1998
  • "The Divine in Dworkin's Law's Empire and the Concealment of Suffering" at American Law & Society Association, Aspen Colarado, June 5th, 1998
  • "The Body, Derrida and Critique" , Conference on "Critique" at York University, September 11-13, 1998.
  • "The Body, Derrida and Critique" at Conference on "Critique" at York University, September 5-7th, 1998.
  • "Mapping out a Graduate Program in Legal Theory" at Faculty of Law, University of Leicester, December 18th, 1999
  • "Semiotics and Law", Guest Lecture, Dept of English, University of Toronto, February 223rd, 1998.

In 1997:

  • "The Secret Origins of Hart's Concept of Law" to Department of Philosophy, Liverpool University, 3 February 1997)
  • "The Concealment of the Differend in the Master Discourse of the Modern State" at Dept of Law, Birkbeck College, 5 February 1997
  • "The Transformation of Meaning in Modern Legal Discourse" at Department of Law, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, 18 February 1997.
  • "The Author, Authority and Dworkin's Juridical Empire" at Faculty of Law, UCL, University of London, 19 February 1997
  • "The End of Legal Positivism" at Centre for Law and Society, Edinburgh University, February 13, 1997
  • "Is there more to the Canadian Internment Camps than Race?" at Department of Public Law, Edinburgh University at February 26th, 1997
  • "The Pre-Modern and Modern Senses of Legal Authority: Lessons from Amerindian and Early Greek Tribes" at Annual Meeting of the Research Committee on Sociology of Law, Antwerp, July 10th, 1997
  • "Mind the Gap in the Zap: Suffering as the Engine of Social-Legal Critique" in Critical Legal Studies Conference, Dublin, September 5-7, 1997

In 1996

  • "Critical Legal Studies, Semiotics, and the `Distinct Society' Clause in Canadian Legal Discourse," Guest Lecture, Dept of English, University of Toronto, February 29th, 1996.
  • "The Concealment of the Differend in the Master Discourse of the Modern State" at the Annual Conference of the International Asoc of Philosophy and Literature: "Dramas of Culture", May 8-11, 1996, George Mason University, Virginia.
  • "The Integration of the Aggrieved into Modern Legal Discourse" at Association of U.K. Law Teachers Annual Conference at Grey's Inn College of Law, London, March 30th to April 2nd, 1996.
  • "The Internment of `Persons of Japanese Ancestry' and the Concealment of Suffering in Modern Legal Discourse" at Kent Law School, University of Kent at Canterbury, March 27th, 1996.
  • "Is Justice Accessible?", Law & Society Association, Glasgow, July 10-13, 1996.

In 1995:

  • "The End of Sovereignty in the Modern State" at the 17th IVR World Congress, June 11-18, 1995 at Bologna, Italy.
  • "A Strawperson of `Law & Society': H L A Hart's Legal Positivism" at the Annual meeting of the American Law & Society Assoc, Toronto, June 1-4, 1995.

In 1994:

  • "Is there a God in the Pure Theory of Law?", Public Lecture to Department of Philosophy, Tilburg University, Netherlands on March 18, 1994.
  • "the Author, matriarchy and the laws of Sophocles' Antigone", Northrop Frye Lecture, Victoria College, University of Toronto on March 29, 1994.
  • "Semiotics and Critical Legal Studies", Guest Lecture, Dept of English, University of Toronto, March 16th, 1994.
  • "The Transformation of Authority from the Early Greek Clan to the Early Modern State", American Law and Society Association, Austin Texas on May 25-30, 1994.
  • "Husserl, the Differend and Kafka's The Trial", Phenomenology and Literature organized by the International Society of Phenomenology & Literature, August 22-27, 1994 at Graz, Austria.
  • "Husserl, Kafka's The Trial and Legal Meaning" at Annual Conference of Society for Phenomenology and Human Science on September 29, 1994 at Seattle, Washington.

In 1993:

  • Chair and organizer of Panel on "Marginalization in Legal Discourse" Panel Organizer and at Conference on "Cultural Continuities" at Department of English, Wayne State University, March 1993.
  • "The Authoritative Assimilation of the Other within Legal Discourse" at "Others in Discourse: An International Conference on the Rhetoric and Politics of Exclusion, Victoria College, University of Toronto, May 6-8, 1993.
  • "The Invisible Author of the Juridical Genre" at the 18th Annual Conference of the International Association of Philosophy and Literature, Duquesne University, May 12th - 15th, 1993.
  • "The Role of the Invisible Author in the Assimilation of the Other" at the American Law and Society Conference, Philadelphia, May 27th- 30th, 1993.
  • "The Trace of Idealism within Derrida's Difference" at the Canadian Association of Hermeneutics and Post-Structuralism at Carleton University, June 2nd-3rd, 1993.

In 1992:

  • "Legal Authority in a Dialogic Relation" in Strategies of Critique Conference VI, York University, April 3-5, 1992.
  • "Subjectivity in the Modern Legal Order" in Policy Conference of Critical Legal Studies Movement, Harvard University, April 10-12, 1992.
  • "The Juridical Person, the Subject and Suffering in a Modern Legal Genre" at International Association for Philosophy and Literature Conference on Passions, Persons, Powers, University of California, Berkeley, April 30 - May 3, 1992.
  • "Legal Authority in a Monologic and Dialogic Language" in Annual Meeting of American Law & Society Association, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, May 28-31, 1992.
  • "Teaching Critically in a Modern Professional Genre" at Canadian Law and Society Meetings, Charlottetown, PEI, June 2-4, 1992.
  • "Hegel, the Author and Authority in Sophocles' Antigone", Annual Meeting of Canadian Philosophical Assoc., Charlottetown, PEI, May 24-28, 1992.
  • "What was `Natural' about Aristotle's Laws?" at Joint meeting of Society of Greek Political Theory and American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, September 4-7, 1992.
  • "The Sign of the Author in Modern Legal Consciousness" at Semiotic Society of America 17th Annual Meeting, Chicago, October 30-November 1, 1992.
  • "Individual vs. Collective Research" at Workshop on Scholarship, School of Graduate Studies, University of Windsor, November 14, 1992.

In 1991:

  • "Invisibles" at Symposium on Access to Justice, University of Windsor, January 16-17, 1991.
  • "The Legal Process in a Multiplicity of Discourses" at Conference on Strategies of Critique, York University, April 5-7, 1991.
  • "The Monologic Language of Legal Authority", at Canadian Association of Law and Society, June 4, 1991, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario.
  • "The Authority of the Author in Legal Language" at International Association of Semiotics Conference on Legal Semiotics, June 7 - 10, 1991, Honolulu, Hawaii.
  • "The Author and Authority in Sophocles' Antigone at Society for Greek Political Theory, American Political Science Association Meetings, Washington, D.C., August 30 - September 1, 1991.

In 1990:

  • "Semiotics: Can Modern Language Theory Help the Draftsman?", Conference on Administration of Justice, Ottawa, November 19th, 1990.

In 1989:

  • "Hegel's 'Life in the Laws'" at World Congress on Legal Philosophy and Social Philosophy, Edinburgh, August 17-23, 1989.

In 1988:

  • Co-organizer of three day international conference on "Feminism, Critical Theory and the Canadian Legal System", University of Windsor, May 19-21, 1988.

In 1987:

  • "The Trap", June 3rd, 1987 presented to the 1987 Law and Society Conference at McMaster University.
  • "Flowers", a dialogue in two Acts, Study Camp of Critical Legal Studies Conference presentation, Sunday, May 24th, 1987, Opinicon Lodge, Chaffey's Locks, Ontario.
  • "The Practice and Theory of Constitutional Law", at International Conference on Philosophy of Law, October 14th, 1987, University of Ottawa.
  • Guest Lecture, Toledo Law School, October 15th, 1987.
  • "The Meech Lake Accord" at Constitutional Law Conference, University of Western Ontario, October 31st, 1987.

In 1986:

  • "Images of a Constitution" July 12th, 1986 to the School of Economics, Social Sciences & Law, Tilburg University, Netherlands.

In 1985:

  • "The Legal Theory of Adorno and Horkheimer", 31 May, 1985 to Canadian Association of Law and Society, Montreal.
  • "Aristotle's Theory of a Constitution", 31 August, 1985 at National Meeting of American Political Science Association, New Orleans.
  • "The First Question About the Canadian Charter of Rights", October, 1985, to Michigan Political Science Association, Windsor.

In 1984:

  • "A Theory of the Constitution and Its Application to Critical Philosophy", 8 March, 1984 to Faculty of Law, Queens University, Kingston.
  • "A Theory of the Constitution and Plato", March, 1984 to Faculty of Law, Detroit University.

In 1983:

  • "Equality and Three Conceptions of a Person" at Jurisprudence and Social Policy Forum, March 9, 1983, University of California, Berkeley.
  • "Competing Conceptions of a Person and Their Role for Constitutional Rights" at Canadian Section of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, 31 May, 1983 at Vancouver, B.C.
  • "A Theory of the Constitution" at Department of Philosophy Colloquium, University of Waterloo, Ontario, on 28 October 1983.

In 1981:

  • "Clear Cases" to Southern Ontario Association of Political Philosophy, February 27, 1981, McMaster University.
  • "The Role of the Judiciary in a Democratic State", Annual Wayne-Windsor Lecture Series, March 24, 1981, Wayne State Law School.

In 1980:

  • "Are Human Rights Universal?" to Law & Social Problems Conference, University of Toronto, February 8, 1980.
  • "Clear Cases" at the Canadian Conference on the History and Philosophy of Law, June 8th, 1980, University of Windsor.
  • "Should Human Rights Be Entrenched? If so What Rights?" to Canadian Human Rights Foundation, University of Toronto, October 5, 1980
  • Note: * signifies refereed; no * signifies uncertain or not refereed