Makoto Usami

About

Makoto Usami is a professor in the Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University and a visiting professor at the Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence, Technical University of Munich. He was a professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology after staying as a visiting scholar at Harvard University.

Usami has served as the President of the Public Policy Studies Association Japan and the President of the Japanese Section of the International Association for Philosophy of Law. He has authored six books, edited eight anthologies, and published about 80 journal articles and book chapters in English and Japanese.

Resarch Focus

• Distributive justice
• Nature of rights
• Climate justice
• Global justice
• Intergenerational justice
• Transitional justice
• Ethical issues on artificial intelligence
• Governance of global catastrophic risk
  

Awards

• Excellent Paper Award, Public Policy Studies Association Japan, 2009

Memberships

• Japan Association of Legal Philosophy (JALP)
• International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, Japanese Section (IVR Japan)
• Public Policy Studies Association, Japan (PPSAJ)
• Japan Law and Economics Association (JLEA)
• Japanese Political Science Association (JPSA)
• Japanese Conference for the Study of Political Thought (JCSPT)