Doctoral Researcher
Supervisor/advisor: Prof. Dr. Markus Krajewski, Prof. Dr. Thoko Kaime
Contact: gns.sitati@fau.de
Short Bio
Grace N. Sitati is a doctoral researcher in the international doctoral program at Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU) and a research assistant at the University of Bayreuth, a participating university at the Chair of African Legal Studies. She holds an LL.M. in Regional Integration and East African Community Law from the Tanzanian-German Centre for East African Law (TGCL) at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, a postgraduate diploma in law from the Kenya School of Law, and an LL.B. from Moi University in Kenya. She has a strong interest in the intersections of business and human rights, regional integration, and alternative dispute resolution (ADR). Grace is also a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Kenya branch) and a certified professional mediator (MTI). She worked as a legal advisor at the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission of Kenya, a researcher for the Centre for Regional Integration (CEFRI) and as a Legal Compliance Associate at Manyonge Wanyama & Associates LLP in Nairobi.
Grace’s doctoral thesis examines the difficult situation of platform workers on digital labour platforms in the Global South, using Kenya as a case study. Her research investigates corporate accountability and access to effective remedies for unfair labour practices on digital work platforms in Kenya. She explores the extent to which existing frameworks are largely geared towards traditional employment relationships, thus limiting the protection of platform workers in the digital age from unfair labour practices by platforms as employers.
- Grace N. Sitati, Weaving the shield to tackle the ache of human trafficking in Africa, 2025, pp. 30-40 < https://epub.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/8490/2/Collection%20of%20Essays_Human%20trafficking.pdf >
- Grace Nafula Sitati, Chasing Horizons: How Kenya’s Government Shapes Overseas Job Opportunities, 30 January 2026 < https://africanlegalstudies.blog/2026/01/30/pursuit-of-jobs-abroad-and-the-role-of-the-government-in-kenya/ >
- Grace Sitati, Implications of Huduma Namba in the Context of Big Data Analytics, The Platform Magazine for Law, Justice & Society, Issue No. 47, September 2019, Pg.38-39.
- Grace Sitati, Whether the Competency-Based Curriculum Accommodates Children with Learning Disabilities in Kenya, Issue No. 49, December 2019, Pg. 64-65.
- An Analysis of Commodification and Commercialisation of Eggs (Ova) in Kenya, Issue No. 51, February 2020, Pg. 18-19.