（Last updated : 2026-04-20 16:00:48）
  GEN FUKUSHIMA
   Department   Department of Law, Faculty of Law
   Position   Assistant Professor (Lecturer)
■ Present specialized field
Political Theory, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law (Key Word：Political Theory,Legitimacy,Authority,Duty to Obey the Law,Conceptual Engineering,Political Liberalism,Democratic Theory,Philosophical Anarchism) 
■ Academic conference presentation
1. 2025/10/18 In Defence of Messy Political Terms: Polarisation, Mobilisation, and Countervailing Deviation (The International Workshop on Conceptual Engineering in the East and the West)
2. 2025/07/17 Legitimacy in Areas of Limited Statehood: A Network Approach (PPE Society London)
3. 2024/07/11 A Systemic Approach to Legitimacy in Areas of Limited Statehood (IVR 2024)
4. 2023/09/17 Conceptually Engineering Political Legitimacy (IVRJ 2nd International Conference)
5. 2021/07 Is Convergence Political Liberalism Self-Defeating? (26th World Congress of Political Science)
6. 2020/11 The State’s Right to Rule and Theories of Rights (The IVR Japan International Workshop 2020)
7. 2020/09 Making Sense of the State's Right to Rule: A Hohfeldian Analysis
8. 2020/02 Two Conceptions of Normative Legitimacy: On the Compatibility of the Voluntary Rule Conception and Right to Rule Conception of Legitimacy (1st Geneva Graduate Conference in Political Philosophy, University of Geneva)
9. 2018/07 Public Reason Liberalism and Self-Defeatingness Objection (International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy Japan International Conference)
10. 2017/07 Legitimization of Democracy from Pervasive Disagreement and Its Conditions (The Japan Forum for Young Philosophers)
■ Winning science prize
1. 2022/05 Japanese Conference for the Study of Political Thought Young Scholar Award
■ Academic background
1. 2023/12
Degree Acquisition		 Waseda University, Ph.D. in Political Science
2. 2023/04～2023/12 Graduate School of Political Science, Waseda University
3. 2017/04～2023/03 Ph.D. Program, Graduate School of Political Science, Waseda University
4. 2017/03
Degree Acquisition		 Waseda University, M.A. in Political Science
5. 2015/04～2017/03 Master's Course, Graduate School of Political Science, Waseda University
6. 2014/09
Degree Acquisition		 Keio University, B.A. in Law
7. 2012/09～2013/08 Department of Political and Social Sciences (Exchange Student Program), The Free University of Berlin
8. 2010/04～2014/09 Department of Political Sciences Law, Faculty of Law, Keio University
■ Belonging society
1. 2020/01～2022/01 International Political Science Association
2. 2017/05～ Japanese Political Science Association
3. 2017/05～ The Japanese Conference for the Study of Political Thought