Shari’a Courts Move to the Battlefield

Jabhat al-Nusra Opens a Legal Front in the Syrian Civil War

in the news | February 03, 2014

Harvard Law School National Security Journal

Emily Schneider:

Abu Mohammed al-Golani, head of the al-Qaeda aligned Jabhat al-Nusra, has become not only a consensus-building leader in the midst of Syrian chaos, he has made progress in political coalition building by pressing opposition forces to establish an Islamic court to resolve their differences.