H. Patrick Glenn holds the Peter M. Laing Chair at McGill University’s law school in Montreal, Canada. His award-winning textbook Legal Traditions of the World includes sections on Talmudic, Islamic and Hindu legal traditions, among others, as well as on reconciling the various legal traditions.

Retired Lt. Gen. William G. “Jerry” Boykin held many posts during his Army career, including commander of the Green Berets and deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence. He is now an ordained minister and a conservative Christian political activist, serving as a leader of the North Carolina-based Kingdom Warriors Ministries. Boykin has generated controversy for […]

Nina Shea is director of the Hudson Institute’s Center for Religious Freedom, based in Washington, D.C. She has been an international human-rights lawyer for more than three decades, and her areas of expertise include Islamic law and human rights. Contact through David Tell, director of public affairs and special projects.

Paul Marshall is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute’s Center for Religious Freedom in Washington, D.C., and has written or edited many books about religion and politics. He served as editor and contributor for Radical Islam’s Rules: The Worldwide Spread of Extreme Sharia Law.

Read an Aug. 16, 2013, Religion News Service story about a federal judge striking down an anti-Shariah state constitutional amendment in Oklahoma. Voters had overwhelmingly approved the amendment in 2010.

Dr. Andrew Bostom is associate professor of medicine at Brown University Medical School in Providence, R.I. He has written several books about Islam, including Sharia Versus Freedom: The Legacy of Islamic Totalitarianism.

Julie Macfarlane is a law professor at the University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. She has expertise in Islamic family law and is the author of Islamic Divorce in North America: A Shari’a Path in a Secular Society.

The American Civil Liberties Union issued a report in May 2011 about the push for anti-Shariah laws.

Read a CBS Miami story about a measure that died in the Florida Legislature in May 2013.