Shari’a Courts Move to the Battlefield
Jabhat al-Nusra Opens a Legal Front in the Syrian Civil War
In The News Piece in Harvard Law School National Security Journal
Feb. 3, 2014
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.