Dr Diana Kisakye is a postdoctoral researcher whose work examines the politics of African regional courts, with a focus on the East African Court of Justice and the institutionalisation of Africa’s Regional Economic Community (REC) courts
Research Focus: judicial politics, African development politics, human rights, regional integration
Institutional Affiliation: Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen–Nuremberg (FAU), Germany
Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
Cluster of Excellence “Transforming Human Rights” -
CHREN Center for Human Rights, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg,
Germany (05/2026 to date)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
University of Bayreuth, Germany (01–12/2025)
Research Associate & Doctoral Candidate,
“Africa Multiple” Cluster of Excellence, University of Bayreuth, Germany (11/2019–12/2024)
Assistant Editor,
Mattering Press, Manchester, UK (01/2018–10/2019)
Student Research Assistant,
“Translating Global Health Technologies” Project, University of Bayreuth, Germany (07/2015–12/2017)