Carole E. Goldberg

Carole Goldberg is Distinguished Research Professor of Law and the Jonathan D. Varat Distinguished Professor of Law Emerita at UCLA, where she founded the Native Nations Law and Policy Center and the Joint Degree Program in Law and American Indian Studies.  From 2011-2016, she served as UCLA’s Vice Chancellor for Academic Personnel.  She has also served as Chair of UCLA’s Academic Senate (1993-94) and as Associate Dean of UCLA’s School of Law (1984-89 and 1990-91).  She was one of President Barack Obama’s three appointees to the Indian Law and Order Commission, and in 2013 received the prestigious Lawrence Baca Lifetime Achievement Award from the Federal Bar Association’s Indian Law Section.    Professor Goldberg has written widely about criminal justice, tribal sovereignty and jurisdictional issues, cultural resources, and equal protection in Indian country.  Her most recent books are Captured Justice:  Native Nations and Public Law 280 (2nd ed. 2020) (with Duane Champagne) and A Coalition of Lineages:  the Fernandeño Tataviam Band of Mission Indians (2021) (with Duane Champagne).  Following retirement in 2018, she has been a special assistant to the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost and to the Vice Chancellor for Academic Personnel.