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

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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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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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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 […]

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Introduction to Our Symposium on Margaret B. Kwoka’s “Saving the Freedom of Information Act,” by Christina Koningisor

*This is the introduction to a symposium on Margaret Kwoka’s new book, Saving the Freedom of Information Act. For other posts in the series, click here. I am very pleased to kick off this two-week Notice and Comment symposium on Margaret Kwoka’s new book Saving the Freedom of Information Act. We have an excellent set of […]