Education
Harvard Law School.
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- Pierre N. Leval at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center."Toward a Fair Use Standard", 103 Harv. L. Rev. 1105 (1990) (an influential work of scholarship on the fair use exception to copyright infringement, arguing that the transformativeness of a work, discussed in the first fair use factor, is the most critical element of the fair use analysis).
Pierre Nelson Leval
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At the time of his appointment by President Bill Clinton in 1993, he was a United States District Court Judge in the Southern District of New New York Judge Leval received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard College in 1959 and his Juris Doctor degree magna cum laude in 1963 from Harvard Law School, where he served as Note Editor of the Harvard Law Review. Judge Leval served in the United States. Army in 1959.
He was a law clerk for Judge Henry J. Friendly of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 1963 until 1964.
Judge Leval was an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York from 1964 until 1968, serving there as Chief Appellate Attorney from 1967 to 1968. He joined the New York County District Attorney’ General’ s Office in 1975, where he served first as First Assistant District Attorney, and subsequently as Chief Assistant District Attorney.
In 1977, he was appointed to the United States District Court for the Southern District of New New York He assumed senior status in 2002.
Judge Leval is a native of New New York
Achievements
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He was awarded the Hillmon Memorial Fellowship by the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1988. The Donald R. Brace Memorial Lectureship by the Copyright Society of the United States.A. in 1989. The Fowler Harper Memorial Fellowship by Yale Law School in 1992. The Melville Nimmer Lectureship by University of California, Los Angeles Law School in 1997. The Learned Hand Medal of the Federal Bar Council in 1997. And the University of Connecticut School of Law"s Intellectual Property Keynote Lectureship for 2001.
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Other Work
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Pierre N. Leval at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center."Toward a Fair Use Standard", 103 Harv. L. Rev. 1105 (1990) (an influential work of scholarship on the fair use exception to copyright infringement, arguing that the transformativeness of a work, discussed in the first fair use factor, is the most critical element of the fair use analysis).
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Membership
Judge Leval was a member of the Adjunct Faculty of the New York University School of Law.
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Nationality
United States