Sabin Willett

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Peter Sabin Willett, known as Sabin Willett, (born March 6, 1957) is an American lawyer and novelist, a partner with the Boston law firm Bingham McCutchen, previously called Bingham Dana. He lives near Boston, Massachusetts. His is perhaps best known as a defense lawyer for U.S. prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp, including Adil Abdulhakim.

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[edit] Education

Willett was educated in England at Gresham's School, Holt, and at Harvard College and Harvard Law School.

[edit] Novels by Sabin Willett

[edit] Articles by Sabin Willett

[edit] Legal Publications by Sabin Willett

  • Adel's Anniversary: A Guantanamo Tale, JURIST (University of Pittsburgh School of Law Journal), March 2006
  • The Doctrine of Robin Hood: a Note on Substantive Consolidation (4 DePaul Business & Commercial Law Journal 87, Fall, 2005)
  • The Shallows of Deepening Insolvency (60 The Business Lawyer 533, February, 2005)
  • Bankruptcy Trial Tactics (ABA Judicial Division Bench/Bar Bankruptcy Conference, March, 2005)
  • The Doctrine of Necessity: a Polemic (13 Journal of Bankruptcy Law and Practice no. 4 at 61, 2004)

[edit] Lawyer

As a lawyer, Willett concentrates his practice in commercial and bankruptcy litigation.

He also represents a number of prisoners at held by the United States at Guantanamo as part of the War on Terror, including some of the Uighurs who were found innocent and released to Albania in 2006.

[edit] Memberships

  • Boston Bar Association
  • Massachusetts Bar Association
  • New Hampshire Bar Association
  • American Bar Association

[edit] Quotations

  • "I do think there are a lot of people in my generation who are spending too damn much time in their children’s lives." - Sabin Willett
  • "I’m a Luddite. The problem with instant communication is that it is instant, and constant. People don't have time to think. And they're always distracted. Nobody under twenty ever fully concentrates on anything." - Sabin Willett
  • "In a wiser past, we tried Nazi war criminals in the sunlight. Summing up for the prosecution at Nuremberg, Robert Jackson said that 'the future will never have to ask, with misgiving: "What could the Nazis have said in their favor?" History will know that whatever could be said, they were allowed to say. . . . The extraordinary fairness of these hearings is an attribute of our strength.' The world has never doubted the judgment at Nuremberg. But no one will trust the work of these secret tribunals." - Sabin Willett

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