# Sharia in the West? What Place for Faith-Based Family Laws in Western Democracies?

Legal scholar John Witte Jr. discusses how Western legal systems grapple with non-state-based, family-law systems such as Sharia, Halacha and Canon Law. Witte predicts that the Western-legal-system handling of Sharia will become hotly politicized in America in the next few years, as has happened recently in Canada and the United Kingdom. He believes scholarship can aid in widening the conversation surrounding a potentially inflammatory topic.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2012
- By: Library Of Congress
- Genres: Western, History, Children's, Religion
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688981/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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