Henry Weinstein, Class of 1966
A history major, Henry graduated from UC Berkeley in 1966 and then started at Berkeley Law. Henry was a Daily Cal staff writer in 1968 and 1969, during his last two years of law school here. He wrote extensively about the Black Panthers and numerous upheavals at the university, learning to use a gas mask in the process.
Over the next four decades, Henry wrote for four newspapers, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the San Francisco Examiner, and the Los Angeles Times, where he spent 30 years, including stints as a local investigative reporter, labor writer, and legal affairs writer. His stories led to enhanced consumer protection laws and helped exonerate wrongly convicted people.
In 2006, Henry received the John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism, which honors one journalist a year ‘whose reporting over time shows courage, integrity, curiosity and intelligence, and epitomizes the role of journalism in a free society.’
In 2008, Henry left the Times and became one of the founding faculty members at the University of California Irvine School of Law, where he is now an emeritus professor. Henry is married, has one daughter, and a lovable labradoodle, Winston.