Oral history interview with Peter Sabin Willet, 2009-2010.

Biographical Note

Partner, Bingham-McCutchen LLP.

Scope and Contents

Born March 6, 1957; education: B.A., Harvard College, 1979; J.D., Harvard Law School, 1983; career: Partner, Bingham McCutchen LLP; career focus: commercial and bankruptcy litigation; D.C. District Court: Kiyemba v. Bush, 2008; D.C. Circuit Court: Parhat v. Gates, 2008; United States Supreme Court: Kiyemba v. Obama (vacated and remanded), 2010; discussions: Geneva Conventions, habeas judgment, patriotism, Detainee Treatment Act, Military Commissions Act, Uighur detainees, resettlement in Bermuda and Albania; reminiscences: personal relationships with detainees, struggles with federal judiciary, impressions of U.S. courts and political system in relation to Guantanamo

Subjects

• Bingham McCutchen LLP.
• Combatants and noncombatants (International law)
• Detention of persons--Cuba--Guantánamo Bay Naval Base.
• Geneva Conventions (1949 August 12)
• Grele, Ronald J., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp.
• Habeas corpus--United States.
• Interviews.
• Lawyers--United States--Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Prisoners of war--Legal status, laws, etc.--Cuba--Guantánamo Bay Naval Base.
• Rule of law--United States.
• Uighur (Turkic people)--Cuba--Guantánamo Bay Naval Base.
• United States.--Military Commissions Act of 2006.
• United States. Supreme Court.
• Unlawful combatants--Legal status, laws, etc.--United States.
• Willet, Peter Sabin, 1957---Interviews.

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