This fund was established in 1988 through gifts from partners and associates in Ballard, Spahr, Andrews & Ingersoll as the firm’s contribution to the Law School at Penn’s Development Program. Pledges totaling $125,000 were made at that time and fulfilled by 1979. Income from this fund is to be used to supplement the Biddle Law Library’s collection in the field of environmental law.

Of all branches of law, environmental law has the greatest impact on how people live and work. An endowed law book collection in this field would include the following kinds of publications:

• Energy development
• Law of the sea and its resources, including fishing rights
• Urban and rural problems, including land use (zoning and housing), transportation, population, growth, health and safety, sanitation, noise control, agriculture (pesticides), food and food additives, and mining
• Air and water protection and pollution, including industrial and residential design and waste, automobile, marine and airplane design, and emissions

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Established in 1986 through a gift made by the Honorable Harold Berger (EE’48, L’51), this fund supports the air and space law collection within the Biddle Law Library. It is one of the premier collections of primary documents and expert commentary on air and space law held by a United States academic law library.

Judge Berger was part of a special unit formed at the end of World War II to work with captured German scientists. He worked with Werner von Braun and other German rocket scientists. He continued to work in law and engineering, eventually becoming the head of the ABA’s Aerospace Law Committee.

Judge Berger named this preeminent collection after his parents, Anna and Jonas Berger, to honor them for all that they did to help their three sons — Harold, David, and Ellis — to graduate from various schools at Penn.

The collection includes leading treatises and books, journals, government documents and other primary material, and bibliographies for the use of researchers in air and space law. The collection primarily consists of print materials, but some titles are available in microform, or increasingly, in electronic format.

Researchers from throughout the United States and beyond are welcome to use the collection.

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Income from this endowment is used to fund the purchase of materials on First Amendment and advertising law.

This collection is dedicated in memory of Thomas J. McGrew L’70, who specialized in advertising law. He joined Arnold & Porter following his graduation from the Law School and became a partner in 1978. He was appointed the first occupant of the Distinguished Visitor from Practice Chair at the Georgetown University Law Center in 1985.

From 1985 to 1990, McGrew was director and chairman of ANALEX, a developer of software used in the legal and economic analysis of financial institution mergers. He served on several committees, including the Penn Carey Law Alumni Society’s Board of Managers, the Council of Better Business Bureaus, and the American Bar Association’s subcommittee on laws on false and comparative advertising. He also served as chairman of the National Advertising Review Board’s committee on future advertising self-regulation.

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In 1987, Mr. Gruss, by a bequest from his wife Caroline’s estate, established the Caroline Zelaznik Gruss and Joseph S. Gruss Chair in Talmudic Civil Law at the Law School, as well as a special Talmudic Law collection in the Biddle Law Library.

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