RELG 331 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Constitution Of Iraq, Uniform Act, American Arbitration Association
1 Dec 2016
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Associations of sharia law: association with radical islam and oppression. Testing migrants from muslim countries about whether or not they agree with sharia law to see if they can have access to the western world. Noah feldman talked a lot about this and he"s saying the idea of sharia law is widely misunderstood. Feldman was coming to intervene when the head of the church of england gave a lecture which was circulated and all hell broke loose. He had suggested that muslim and jewish communities take care of their own marriage and divorce laws. There are rabbinical courts within orthodox communities that serve as arbitrators. In the us, there"s an american arbitration association. Religious private arbitration sphere has emerged that operate along the same lines but include. This has become controversial because the supreme court in the us has constitutionally cleared these sorts of arrangements.
