Hiller B. Zobel is an Associate Justice (retired) of the Superior Court of Massachusetts and author or coauthor of several books on various legal topics, including the Boston Massacre

Boston Massacre

The Boston Massacre, called the Boston Riot by the British, was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers killed five civilian men. British troops had been stationed in Boston, capital of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, since 1768 in order to protect and support...

 and John Adams

John Adams

John Adams was an American lawyer, statesman, diplomat and political theorist. A leading champion of independence in 1776, he was the second President of the United States...

. He graduated from Harvard College

Harvard College

Harvard College, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is one of two schools within Harvard University granting undergraduate degrees...

 in 1953 and received his law degree in 1959 from Harvard. He was recalled from retirement in 2006 and now serves the Middlesex Superior Court.

Some of the legal tasks in which he played a significant role include:

• Presiding judge at trial of Louise Woodward
  Louise Woodward
  The Louise Woodward case concerned a young English au pair convicted, at age 19, of the 1997 involuntary manslaughter of eight-month-old Matthew Eappen while he was in her care in his home in Newton, Massachusetts, in the United States...
  
  , British au pair
  Au pair
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• Libel counsel for WCVB-TV
  WCVB-TV
  WCVB-TV, channel 5, is a television station located in Boston, Massachusetts, owned by Hearst Television and affiliated with the ABC Television Network. WCVB-TV's studios and transmitter are co-located in Needham, Massachusetts. WCVB is also one of six Boston television stations seen in Canada by...
  
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• Professor at Boston College Law School
  Boston College Law School
  Boston College Law School is one of the six professional graduate schools at Boston College. Located approximately 1.5 miles from the main Boston College campus in Chestnut Hill, Boston College Law School is situated on a wooded campus in Newton, Massachusetts.With approximately 800 students and...
  
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Selected publications

• Zobel, Hiller B., "The Boston Massacre", (1970) (reissued 1995), W. W. Norton and Co., ISBN 0-393-31483-9
• Zobel, Hiller B., Rous, Stephen N., "Doctors and the Law: Defendants and Expert Witnesses",(1993) W. W. Norton & Company, ISBN 13-978-03930-34509
• Wroth, L. Kinvin (editor), Zobel, Hiller B. (editor), "Legal Papers of John Adams (3 vols)", (1965) Harvard University

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