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Symposium on Margaret Kwoka's "Saving the Freedom of Information Act"

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The Future of FOIA, by Margaret Kwoka

*This is the tenth and final post in a symposium on Margaret Kwoka’s new book, Saving the Freedom of Information Act. For other posts in the series, click here. I am deeply indebted to Christina Koningisor for organizing this incredible line-up of contributors to engage with my new book, Saving the Freedom of Information Act. The responses to […]

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The Public Benefits of Press Specialness, by RonNell Andersen Jones

*This is the ninth post in a symposium on Margaret Kwoka’s new book, Saving the Freedom of Information Act. For other posts in the series, click here. In Saving the Freedom of Information Act, Margaret Kwoka offers a deep empirical diagnosis of FOIA’s operational dysfunction. Her data make unmistakably clear that FOIA is falling far short of […]

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‘Studying Up’ the FOIA State, by Austin C. Kocher

*This is the eighth post in a symposium on Margaret Kwoka’s new book, Saving the Freedom of Information Act. For other posts in the series, click here. Margaret Kwoka’s new book Saving the Freedom of Information Act substantially elevates the conversation surrounding the Freedom of Information Act and the administrative state by examining, in admirable detail, the […]

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Access to Public Records in Immigration Law: Reviewing Margaret B. Kwoka’s Saving the Freedom of Information Act, by Ingrid Eagly

*This is the seventh post in a symposium on Margaret Kwoka’s new book, Saving the Freedom of Information Act. For other posts in the series, click here. In Lee’s Summit, located just outside Kansas City, Missouri, the federal government holds millions of immigration records in an old limestone mine known as “the Cave.” Margaret Kwoka visited the […]

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Can FOIA Be Saved?, by Mark Fenster

*This is the sixth post in a symposium on Margaret Kwoka’s new book, Saving the Freedom of Information Act. For other posts in the series, click here. At the risk of reducing academic sub-fields to stereotypes, scholarship on open government laws in the legal academy appears to fall into two broad categories: administrative law scholars who associate […]

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Saving Freedom of Information – Not Just the Act, by David Cuillier

*This is the fifth post in a symposium on Margaret Kwoka’s new book, Saving the Freedom of Information Act. For other posts in the series, click here. Margaret Kwoka, again, hit it out of the park. With bases loaded. Kwoka outdid herself in “Saving the Freedom of Information Act” by going deeper into this subject than anyone […]

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FOIA As It Is—and As It Could Be, by Al-Amyn Sumar

*This is the fourth post in a symposium on Margaret Kwoka’s new book, Saving the Freedom of Information Act. For other posts in the series, click here. Margaret Kwoka’s new book, Saving the Freedom of Information Act, is a game-changing piece of scholarship. The core of the book is an empirical study of who is using the […]

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Saving FOIA From Administrative Adjudication

*This is the third post in a symposium on Margaret Kwoka’s new book, Saving the Freedom of Information Act. For other posts in the series, click here. Margaret Kwoka has written a masterful book, Saving the Freedom of Information Act, which weaves together her pathbreaking empirical work with theory, doctrine, and practical policy proposals.* It is a […]

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No FOIA is an Island, by Heidi Kitrosser

*This is the second post in a symposium on Margaret Kwoka’s new book, Saving the Freedom of Information Act. For other posts in the series, click here. Margaret Kwoka’s new book, Saving the Freedom of Information Act, is an impressive and important achievement. The book is grounded in the premise that the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) […]

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Margaret Kwoka’s “Saving the Freedom of Information Act” as a Model for the Empirical Study of Administrative Law, by Nicholas R. Parrillo

*This is the first post in a symposium on Margaret Kwoka’s new book, Saving the Freedom of Information Act. For other posts in the series, click here. Margaret Kwoka’s Saving the Freedom of Information Act is one of the best empirical studies ever written on administrative law. Start with the findings, which are sweeping in their government-wide scope […]