This is the record of the first workshop of the GSI caravan project “The Conditions of Sovereignty” held on July 24, 2021, which was co-organized by Global Studies Initiative (GSI) at UTokyo and East Asian Academy for New Liberal Arts (EAA) at UTokyo. The speaker was Professor Jacques Lezra (University of California, Riverside), who gave a speech on “Instance of the Police: on Defective Institutions,”