WAMBAUGH WILL AID IN TACNA-ARICA PLEBISCITE

Professor Eugene Wambaugh '76 formerly Langdell Professor of Law at the University, has been engaged by the Peruvian Government as special counsel during the plebiscite which will settle the Tacna-Arica territorial dispute, a controversy o flong standing between Chile and Peru. He has already left for Lima where he will join his daughter, Miss Sarah Wambaugh, also an adviser to the Peruvian Government.

His experience as counsel in national and international cases has been extensive previous to his present engagement. During the war he was special adviser to the State Department on war problems. He became known to the Peruvian Government in 1915 when he was appointed the member from the United States on the permanent international commission provided for under the treaty with Peru in that year. In 1917 he was also appointed chief of the constitutional and international law division of the Judge Advocate's Section of the Officers' Reserve Corps.

Professor Wambaugh received the degree of LL.B. from the University in 1880 and of LL.D. from University of Iowa in 1892, from Western Reserve University in 1908 and from Dartmouth in 1908. He was professor of law at the State University of Iowa from 1889 to 1892 and has been professor of law at the University since then, becoming Langdell Professor of Law in 1903.