Lieutenant Colonel Robert R. Bowie, AUS, former Assistant Attorney General of Maryland and currently in Europe with the American Group of Allied Control Council, will take up duties as professor of Law here effective July 1, Dean James M. Landis revealed Sunday. Bowie graduated magna cum laude from the Harvard Law School in 1934 and subsequently entered the service of the War Department with civilian status as legal assistant to the Headquarters Army Service Force.

He has since been commissioned and promoted to the rank of Lientenant Colonel, in which capacity he acted as a representative of the War Department in Congress at the time of the passage of the Contract Settlement Act. Previously he had worked with Judge John J. Parker on the American Bar Association Committee for the reform of civil procedure.