Archibald Cox '34 will rejoin the faculty of Law this Fall after four and a half years as solicitor general of the United States.

Sources at the Law School confirmed yesterday that Cox, one nation's leading authorities on labor law, will return to teach-ere as a full professor. His schedule is expected to include a year course on criminal law and an advanced course on law.

His retirement from the office of solicitor general was July 13 by President Johnson. Cox, 52, resigned the post as ranking official of the Department "for personal ."

former Royall Professor of expected to return to his Wayland shortly before the begins. Friends say that how vacationing in Maine.

approval of his appointment be voted by the Board of of which Cox himself is .

first came to Harvard to in 1945. He was appointed Royal Professorship -- the school's oldest endowed chair 1958. President Kennedy him to Washington three , and Cox took office as general on Inauguration 1961.

earlier was a legal adviser then Senator John F. Kennedy , and during 1959 debates legislation. Cox sat next Kennedy on the Senate floor.

the 1960 campaign, Cox leave of absence from write speeches for Kennedy he organized educators to the senator's presidential .

late Supreme Court Justice Frankfurter once referred to an opinion as "one of the most experienced students of labor law."

Cox has served as associate solicitor of the Department of Labor and the principal mediation officer in the National Defense Mobilization Board.

In 1952 President Truman appointed him chairman of the Wage Stabilization Board, but he resigned four months later after Truman overruled a decision of the board involving wage increases for coal miners