Courses Offered:

International Law
International Legal Transactions
European Union Law
International Commercial Arbitration

Professional Biographical Information:

Associate Dean Gabriel M. Wilner joined the University of Georgia School of Law faculty in 1973 and serves as executive director of the Dean Rusk Center -- International, Comparative and Graduate Legal Studies as well as Charles H. Kirbo Chair in International Law. In addition to his current courses, he has taught private international law (conflict of laws), comparative law and maritime law.

Wilner also serves as director of the law school's LL.M. (Master of Laws) program, which each year enrolls about 25 attorneys – most of whom are foreign – in a one-year individually fashioned program of intensive research and related coursework in specific areas of the law. In addition, he has directed the Brussels Seminar on the Law and Institutions of the European Community and Union – a three-week intensive course on EC law – since its inception in 1973.

Wilner has served as legal advisor and consultant to various United Nations institutions and to African and Asian regional institutions. He has also served as arbitrator in transnational disputes and was a drafter of the 1988 Georgia Arbitration Code. In 1991, he received the Whitney North Seymour Arbitration Medal from the American Arbitration Association.

Wilner has published on international law, domestic and international arbitration, international development law and private international law (conflict of laws).  He also serves on the editorial board of the Columbia Journal of European Law and was a member of the advisory board of editors of the Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce for 20 years. He has been the faculty advisor to the Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law since 1973 .

Wilner is a member of the American Society of International Law, the International Section of the American Bar Association and the Maritime Law Association of the United States.

He earned a B.A. from the College of William and Mary, a D.P.A. from the University of Exeter in England and received his law and master of laws degrees from the Columbia University School of Law, where he served as editor-in-chief of the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law.  He was also a doctoral student at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB).

Wilner served as an associate in the legal department of the American Arbitration Association from 1964-66 and then practiced law in Brussels, Belgium, for two years. From 1964 to 1969, he was director of studies at the Hague Academy of International Law. In 1969, he became a member of the Office of Legal Affairs of the United Nations, where he remained until joining the UGA law faculty in 1973. He took a leave of absence from the university to serve as a legal officer in the technology transfer division of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in 1976-77, 1978 and 1979. He served as a legal consultant to UNCTAD from 1980 to 1985 and to the United Nations Commission on Transnational Corporations from 1985 to 1990.

He held a post as adjunct professor of law in the international graduate law program at the Faculty of Law of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel from 1976 to 2004.  He has also served as a visiting professor at IMEDE in Lausanne, Switzerland, the Université Jean Moulin (Lyon 3) and Paris II (Panthéon-Assas). He taught at Emory University from 1984 to 1985. During 1991-92, he served as the Edward Ball Eminent Scholar and Professor of International Law at Florida State University College of Law.

Wilner received a Fulbright Research Fellowship to India for 1983-84 and lectured at J. Nehru, Delhi and Cochin Universities during that year.  He has also lectured at the law faculties of Itam and Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana in Mexico City, the University of Lagos, the University of Ouagadougou, the Universidad del Salvador in Buenos Aires, the University of Amsterdam and the University of Antwerp.