Dr. Clarisa Long

Biography

Clarisa Long is the Max Mendel Shaye Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Columbia Law School, where her research focuses on the intersection of intellectual property law and competition policy. She serves on the committee of the Center for Cybersecurity and is the faculty director of Columbia University’s Data Science Institute Law Program. Long is a registered patent prosecutor with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Prior to joining the Columbia Law faculty in 2005, she was a Class of 1966 Research Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, clerked for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, was a fellow at Harvard Law School, and worked as an associate at Wiley, Rein & Fielding in Washington, D.C. Before transitioning to academia, Long was a molecular biologist, conducting research in New Zealand and the United States, including at the National Institutes of Health. Her published works include "Genetic Testing: Use of Information" (AEI Press, 1999) and "Intellectual Property Rights in Emerging Markets" (AEI Press, 2000).

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