Clarisa Long is the Max Mendel Shaye Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Columbia Law School.

Long was formerly the Class of 1966 Research Professor at University of Virginia School of Law and a member of the University of Virginia School of Law faculty from 1999 to 2005.

Prior to that, she was a lecturer and fellow at Harvard University.

Long served as clerk to Judge Alvin A. Schall in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and was an attorney at Wiley, Rein & Fielding in Washington, D.C.