Pierre N. Leval

Pierre N. Leval
Pierre N. Leval
Senior Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; August 16, 2002
Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
	In office; October 20, 1993 – August 16, 2002
Appointed by	Bill Clinton
Preceded by	George C. Pratt
Succeeded by	Richard C. Wesley
Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
	In office; October 31, 1977 – November 8, 1993
Appointed by	Jimmy Carter
Preceded by	Dudley Baldwin Bonsal
Succeeded by	Sidney H. Stein
Personal details
Born	Pierre Nelson Leval; September 4, 1936 (age 87); New York City, U.S.
Spouse	Susana Torruella Leval
Education	Harvard University (BA, JD)

Pierre Nelson Leval (born September 4, 1936)^[1] is a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. At the time of his appointment by President Bill Clinton in 1993, he was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Early life and education

Born in New York City, Leval attended

magna cum laude, in 1963 from Harvard Law School, where he served as a notes editor of the Harvard Law Review.^[2]

Leval served in the

Leval was nominated by President Jimmy Carter on October 17, 1977, to a seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York vacated by Judge Dudley Baldwin Bonsal. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on October 29, 1977, and received commission on October 31, 1977.^[3] During his tenure on the Southern District, he presided over the 1985-87 Pizza Connection Trial, a major prosecution against both the American and Sicilian Mafias and the longest criminal trial in the judicial history of the United States.^[4] His service terminated on November 8, 1993, due to elevation to the Second Circuit.^[3]

Leval was nominated by President Bill Clinton on August 6, 1993, to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit vacated by Judge George C. Pratt. He was confirmed by the Senate on October 18, 1993, and received commission on October 20, 1993. He assumed senior status on August 16, 2002.^[3]

Leval was a board member of the Federal Judicial Center from 2002 to 2006.

Leval was a member of the adjunct faculty of the

Intellectual Property Keynote Lectureship for 2001. He assumed senior status

Pierre N. Leval at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
Appearances on C-SPAN
"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)^[1]

Legal offices
Preceded by Dudley Baldwin Bonsal	Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York 1977–1993	Succeeded by Sidney H. Stein
Preceded by George C. Pratt	Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit 1993–2002	Succeeded by Richard C. Wesley

^ Kyle K. Courtney; David R. Hansen (2019-03-01). "Fair Use, Innovation, and Controlled Digital Lending". However, the decision, written by the creator of the modern transformative fair use doctrine, Judge Pierre Laval, contains several important lessons for CDL. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)