Homer Glenn Angelo, a professor emeritus of law at the University of California, Davis, and a passionate advocate for world peace and environmental protection, died Tuesday of heart disease at his San Rafael home. He was 82. A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday in the chapel of the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley. While childhood hikes among California's redwoods inspired Angelo's passion to work for the protection of the environment, the horrors of his combat experience during World War II drove him to work for world peace. Asked where he was from, Angelo would often reply, "I am a global citizen," and he wished for others to see the value in such a philosophy. A native of Alameda, Angelo attended Berkeley High School and went on to graduate from UC Berkeley with a bachelor's degree in public speaking in 1938 and a law degree in 1941. He served with the 35th Infantry Regiment on Guadalcanal and later with the Second British Army, the First Canadian Army and General Eisenhower's SHAEF mission to the Netherlands. He was awarded the Order of the House of Orange for his role in the liberation of Holland. After completing a master of laws degree at Columbia University in 1947, Angelo practiced law for 14 years in San Francisco and Carson City, Nev. Also a professor of law at Stanford University then, he co-taught one of the earliest courses on the legal aspects of U.S. foreign relations and served as chair of the American Bar Association's section on international and comparative law for two years. As a foreign affairs specialist with the U.S. Department of State from 1949 to 1951 and later a consultant to the department and the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, Angelo helped work out the terms of Indonesian independence, served on the internal working group that established NATO, and later contributed to the development of the collective measures used to end the Korean War. "He was a skilled negotiator," said Richard F. Scott of San Diego, a fellow lawyer and friend of four decades. "He wasn't a tough guy but rather a conciliator. He prided himself on his ability to bring people together." In 1961, Angelo moved to Geneva and then Brussels to establish an international law practice that he would continue for three decades. In 1968, he returned to the United States to teach at the UC Davis School of Law, where he developed new courses in international environmental protection, space law, international transactions and international telecommunications. Even after his retirement in 1986, he taught at UC Davis, Berkeley and Golden Gate University. Professor Hap Dunning, who arrived at the UC Davis law school shortly after Angelo, says a special ability helped make Angelo a pioneer in the fields of international, environmental and telecommunications law. "He was good at seeing the big picture -- what was important and what was going to be important," Dunning said. In the '60s and '70s, Angelo was vice-chair of the commission on legislation of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Its Resources. He served on the parliamentary planning committee for and participated in the first U.N.-convened Conference on the International Protection of the Human Environment in Stockholm in 1972. Angelo served on the governing board of the International Assembly of Non-Governmental Organizations Concerned with the Environment and, as president of its North American group, represented more than 200 organizations in relations with the United Nations and environmental organizations around the world. He helped found both the Non-Governmental Organization Environmental Center and the International Council of Environmental Law, now composed of legislators and lawyers in most countries. During his career, Angelo also taught at the Institute for European Studies and the Europa Institute of Amsterdam University. He lectured at other institutions around the world. Angelo is remembered as an affable man with hundreds of friends around the world and as a mentor of great service to young people. Richard Scott, who was a graduate student at Berkeley when they met, tells how the senior Angelo arranged for a justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada to marry Scott and his bride at Angelo's Genoa home. A donation from Angelo and his wife of 53 years, Ann Berryhill Angelo, led to the creation of the Homer G. Angelo and Ann Berryhill Angelo Endowed Professorship and Fund for International Legal and Communication Studies. It supports the teaching, scholarship and public service of the holder and other related activities at the Davis law school. For the last three years, Angelo was of counsel to the law firm of Morrison & Foerster on international telecommunications and had been invited as a delegate to the Intergovernmental Conference on Emergency Telecommunications in Finland in June. Angelo's wife died in May. He is survived by brother Heath Angelo of Oakland; half-sister Mary Steel of Fremont; children Alex Angelo of Genoa, Christiane Kropp of St. Louis and Nancy Angelo of El Cerrito, Calif.; and grandchildren Hobie Kropp of St. Louis and Bridger Angelo of Genoa. In lieu of flowers, the family welcomes contributions to the professorship named for him and his wife. Checks should be made out to "UC Regents (Law School)" with "Angelo Professorship" written in the memo section, and sent to Attn: Development, Alumni and Public Relations, UC Davis School of Law, 400 Mrak Hall Drive, Davis, CA 95616.