Thomas Wilner

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| name =Thomas Wilner

| image = Thomas B. Wilner - Guantanamo Bay- Year 15 (32731016802) (cropped).jpg

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| caption = Wilner in January 2017

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| nationality = American

| other_names = Tom Wilner

| occupation = lawyer

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| known_for = human rights cases

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| children = Adam Wilner, Amanda Miller, David Wilner. Grandchildren: Brack Wilner, Charlotte Wilner, Michael Wilner, Sophia Wilner, Elsa Miller, Sylvia Miller

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Thomas B. Wilner (born 1944) is the managing partner of Shearman & Sterling's International Trade and Global Relations Practice. Wilner has also represented the high-profile human rights cases of a dozen Kuwaiti citizens detained in the United States naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.{{cite news

|url = http://www.justicetalking.org/viewprogram.asp?progID=508

|title = Guantanamo Bay: Dealing with the Enemy in an Age of Terror

|publisher = Justice's talking

|date = May 16, 2005

|accessdate = 2007-02-05

|url-status = dead

|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070928143800/http://www.justicetalking.org/viewprogram.asp?progID=508

|archivedate = September 28, 2007

}}{{cite news

|url = http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-op-wilner26feb26,0,1383538.story?coll=la-home-commentary

|title = American gulag: Torture, force-feeding and darkness at noon -- this is Guantanamo, a lawyer for prisoners says

|newspaper = Los Angeles Times

|date = February 26, 2006

|accessdate = 2006-03-02

|url-status = dead

|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20061213040130/http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-op-wilner26feb26,0,1383538.story?coll=la-home-commentary

|archivedate = December 13, 2006

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{{cite news

| url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/18/AR2008091803396.html

| title=Guantanamo Detainees and the Courts

| page=A18

| newspaper=Washington Post

| author=Thomas Wilner

| date=2008-09-19

| accessdate=2008-09-19

| quote=The habeas corpus review ordered by the Supreme Court is modest but fundamental. It simply requires the government to demonstrate to an independent judge that it has a reasonable basis for detaining a prisoner. It is the most basic protection against arbitrary and mistaken imprisonment. U.S. courts have handled these cases since our country was founded. They are fully capable of handling these cases now without further legislation.

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Wilner earned his law degree in 1969 from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.{{cite web

| url=http://pview.findlaw.com/view/2125885_1

| title=Findlaw Lawyer Directory]

| work=Findlaw

| accessdate=2007-02-05

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Wilner has been admitted to the bar in a number of jurisdictions, including the US Supreme Court in 1975.