Henry Weinstein will discuss his journey from Boalt Hall to the newsroom and all the back roads and courthouses in between. Mr. Weinstein’s talk will address the tensions that exist between a reporter’s loyalty to the First Amendment and a lawyer’s duty to uphold the Sixth Amendment, as well as the tensions between corporate interests and journalistic ethics.

Henry Weinstein’s career as a journalist began during his second year at Boalt when the Daily Cal dispatched him to cover UC disciplinary proceedings against students who had sat in at Dow Chemical to protest the company’s involvement with the CIA. As a young investigative reporter, Mr. Weinstein’s beats included housing, consumer fraud, labor and local government. During nearly three decades with the Los Angeles Times, his reporting has spanned the legal map including the O.J. Simpson trial, the prosecution of Rodney King, the Ohio ballot challenges brought before the 2004 presidential election, tobacco litigation, sleeping lawyers in Texas, the detentions at Guantanamo Bay, the ALCU’s law suit against the National Security Administration for its domestic surveillance practices, the impact of Hurricane Katrina on the New Orleans criminal justice system, challenges to lethal injection in California and other states, and stories of wrongful convictions. Mr. Weinstein is the recipient of numerous honors, including the prestigious John Chancellor Award for Excellence, which he received in 2006 from the Columbia School of Journalism