Day: June 19, 2014

The US Senate confirmed two out nominees to federal judgeships today. Judge Darrin Gayles, confirmed to the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida, is the first openly gay African-American man to be confirmed as a lifetime-appointed federal judge. Staci Yandle, confirmed to the US District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, […]

In 2011 King’s College honoured Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, the Sultan of Brunei, by gifting him an Honorary Degree in Law. In April of this year the Sultan signed a new penal code into law, which amongst other punishments, decrees death by stoning for consensual same-sex sexual activity. Several organisations and celebrities have already announced boycotts […]