Professor Carole Goldberg Awarded $1.5 Million Grant from National Institute of Justice

Will Serve as Co-Principal Investigator of Study of Administration of Justice in Indian Country

The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) at the US Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., has awarded a nearly $1.5 million, two-year grant to UCLA School of Law Professor Carole Goldberg, UCLA sociology Professor Duane Champagne and University of Minnesota Law School Professor Kevin Washburn for a research project entitled, "A Study of the Administration of Justice in Indian Country."  Professor Goldberg is a co-principal investigator along with professors Champagne and Washburn. 

The grant work will begin in earnest late this fall.  The project staff will be housed at UCLA.  The three faculty members will work cooperatively to design the research methodology, interpret the data from several hundred interviews, and insure that the survey will produce substantive proposals that can make a difference in public policy surrounding the administration of justice in Indian Country. 

The proposal was organized around findings from important work previously performed by Professor Goldberg, who directs the joint degree program in Law and American Indian Studies and is the faculty chair of UCLA Law's Native Nations Law and Policy Center; Professor Champagne, whose research has empirically looked at institutional change and variation among native American societies and their social, economic and political responses to Western influences (i.e., incorporation into the world system, geopolitical competition and trans-societal cultural interactions); and Professor Washburn, who recently published a Michigan Law Review article on structural problems with criminal justice in Indian country. 

Click here to view the NIJ Project Proposal Abstract