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Services for UGA Law Professor Wilner in Athens May 28
Phil Bolton
Atlanta - 05.24.10

A memorial service for Gabriel Michael Wilner, professor of law at the University of Georgia, is to be held at the Bernstein Funeral Home in Athens on Friday, May 28, at 11 a.m.

Professor Wilner died at his home in Athens unexpectedly on May 21. He was the Charles H. Kirbo professor of international law and the associate dean and executive director of graduate legal students at the University of Georgia’s Dean Rusk Center for International Law.

Born in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1938, Mr. Wilner had lived in the United States, France, Belgium, Brazil, Ecuador and India.

After receiving his undergraduate degree from William & Mary College, he studied at the University of Exeter in England, got his L.L.B. and LL.M degrees at Columbia University in New York, and did his graduate legal studies at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.

His law practice experience included work at the United Nations, the legal department of the American Arbitration Association and at a private law office in Brussels.

In lieu of flowers, his family suggests a donation to the National Kidney Foundation, 30 East 33rd St., New York, NY, 10016.

For more information, call the funeral home at (706) 543-7373 online condolences may be offered at www.bernsteinfuneralhome.com

Comments:

pbolton:
Bill Poole: Gabe Wilner was the first true international lawyer I ever met. I was privileged to be a student in the first class he taught at the University of Georgia Law School and to attend the first year of the Brussels' European Law Seminar, which he organized. Gabe was more than a professor. He was truly a mentor and friend, and helped open the eyes of his students to appreciate a truly global perspective. He not only taught us International Law but also broadened our horizons by introducing us to Gisele's exquisite Belgian cuisine, Belgian chocolates and Stella Artois. Gabe inspired and motivated many of his students who have attempted in some small way to emulate his global experiences and successes. The international legal community has lost one of its brightest lights. We will miss him very much.
May 25, 2010 8:32 p.m.
pbolton:
June Lee Towery:Professor Wilner was a gentle, caring person who took true interest in his students. Never too busy for any one who knocked on his office door, he used his expansive international contacts to help his students. I am touched by his life and his love of international law.
May 25, 2010 8:35 p.m.
jrmcintyre:
Gabriel Wilner was first a professor and a guide in my own research work at UGA in the late 1970s when I met him at the Dean Rusk Center; then a faithful friend. Without a doubt, he is a Georgian who has gone beyond the call of academic and professional duty to promote a deep understanding not only of international public and private but also of the European Union, its body of laws, its achievements, its complexities. In creating the Brussels Law Seminar in the early 1970s it is fair to say that he has trained several generation of Georgia lawyers in the arcanes of international law and its practice. UGA and Georgia as well as his numerous students have lost a guide and a mentor. Deepest condolences to Giselle. John McIntyre Georgia Tech, (UGA PhD 81)
May 25, 2010 11:34 p.m.
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