and awards Leval was a member of the adjunct faculty of the New York University School of Law. 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 U.S.A. in 1989; the Fowler Harper Memorial Fellowship by Yale Law School in 1992; the Melville Nimmer Lectureship by UCLA 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. He assumed senior status in 2002. References External links "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) 1936 births Living people 20th-century American judges Assistant United States Attorneys Copyright scholars Harvard Law School alumni Harvard College alumni Judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Judges of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York New York University faculty Lawyers from New York City Military personnel from New York City United States court of appeals judges appointed by Bill Clinton United States district court judges appointed by Jimmy Carter People associated with Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton 21st-century American judges