Margaret Kwoka, A,B., J.D.
Education
- JD, Northeastern University School of Law
- AB, Brown University
Biography
Margaret Kwoka holds the Frank R. Strong Chair in Law at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. She teaches Civil Procedure, Federal Courts, Administrative Law, and a workshop on privacy and transparency.
Professor Kwoka’s research interests center on information law, government secrecy, and the administrative law on transparency. Her articles have appeared or will appear in Yale Law Journal, Duke Law Journal, Georgetown Law Journal, George Washington Law Review, and Boston University Law Review, among others; her book, Saving the Freedom of Information Act, was published by Cambridge University Press. She has testified before Congress on government transparency and served on the Federal FOIA Advisory Committee at the National Archives and Records Administration.
Prior to joining the Moritz faculty, Kwoka was a Professor of Law and Director of the Information Transparency Project at the University of Denver. She also practiced as an attorney at Public Citizen Litigation Group, a public interest law firm in Washington, D.C., where she focused on government transparency litigation in federal court.
In the 2022-2023 academic year, Professor Kwoka completed research on independent oversight of transparency laws in México under a Fulbright-García Robles grant.
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Margaret Kwoka, Returning FOIA to the Press, in The Future of Press Freedom: Democracy, Law, and the News in Changing Times (2025)
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Margaret Kwoka, Transparency Guardians, Geo. Wash. Int'l L. Rev. (forthcoming 2025)
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Jerry L. Mashaw, Peter M. Shane, Aditya Bamzai, Emily Bremer, Margaret Kwoka & Nicholas R. Parrillo, Administrative Law, The Amereican Public Law System: Cases and Materials ((9th ed., 2025)
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Bernard W. Bell, Cary Coglianese, Michael Herz, Margaret Kwoka & Orly Lobel, Enhancing Public Access to Agency Law, 61 Harv. J. on Legis. 51 (2024)
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Bernard W. Bell, Cary Coglianese, Michael Herz, Margaret Kwoka & Orly Lobel, Improving the Affirmative Disclosure of Agency Legal Materials, 13 Mich. J. Envtl. & Admin. L. 342 (2024)
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Margaret Kwoka, An Information Commission, 112 Geo. L.J. 841 (2024)
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Margaret Kwoka, The Anti-Managerial Information Commission, 86 Law & Contemp. Probs. 197 (2023)
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Margaret Kwoka, Due Process, Data Access, and Information Commissions, 6 Geo. L. Tech. Rev. 446 (2022)
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Michael Karanicolas & Margaret Kwoka, Overseeing Oversight, 54 Conn. L. Rev. 655 (2022)
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Margaret Kwoka, Targeted Transparency as Regulation, 48 Fla. St. L. Rev. 389 (2021)
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Margaret Kwoka, Saving the Freedom of Information Act ((2021)
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Margaret Kwoka, First-Person FOIA, 127 Yale L.J. 2204 (2018)
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Bridget DuPey, Margaret Kwoka & Christopher McMichael, Access Denied: Colorado Law Enforcement Refuses Public Access to Records of Police Misconduct ((2018)
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Margaret Kwoka, Introduction, Symposium: International Law, Local Justice: Human Rights Transformed, 10 Northeastern Univ. L. Rev. 13 (2018)
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Margaret Kwoka, The Other FOIA Requesters, in Troubling Transparency: The Freedom of Information Act and Beyond (2018)
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Margaret Kwoka, Legends of the Legal Academy - Hope Lewis, 67 J. Legal Educ. 861 (2018)
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Margaret Kwoka, The Procedural Exceptionalism of National Security Secrecy, 97 B.U. L. Rev. 103 (2017)
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Margaret Kwoka, FOIA, Inc., 65 Duke L.J. 1361 (2016)
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Margaret Kwoka, Inside FOIA, Inc., 126 Yale L.J. Forum 265 (2016)
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Margaret Kwoka, Judicial Rejection of Transsubstantivity: The FOIA Example, 15 Nev. L.J. 1493 (2015)
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Margaret Kwoka, Leaking and Legitimacy, 48 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 1387 (2015)
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Margaret Kwoka, Deference, Chenery, and FOIA, 73 Md. L. Rev. 1060 (2014)
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Margaret Kwoka, Intersecting Experiential Education and Social Justice Teaching, 6 N.E. U. L.J. 111 (2013)
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Margaret Kwoka, Deferring to Secrecy, 54 B.C. L. Rev. 185 (2013)
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Margaret Kwoka, The Freedom of Information Act Trial, 61 Am. U. L. Rev. 217 (2011)
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Melissa Davenport & Margaret Kwoka, Good But Not Great: Improving Access to Public Records Under the D.C. Freedom of Information Act, 13 UDC/DCSL L. Rev. 359 (2010)
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Margaret Kwoka, Vindicating the Rights of People Living with AIDS Under the Alien Tort Claims Act, 40 Loy. U. Chi. L.J. 643 (2009)
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Michael Kirkpatrick & Margaret Kwoka, Disparate Impact Claims Under Title VI Would Not Harm National Security--A Response to Paul Taylor, 46 Harv. J. on Legis. 503 (2009)
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Jessica Vapnek, Isabella Pagotto & Margaret Kwoka, Designing National Pesticide Legislation ((2007)
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The New York Times
How the Supreme Court Locks Away Its Own History
September 1, 2026 -
The New York Times
Public Records Requests Are Surging. The Government Is Falling Behind.
July 29, 2026 -
Times Reporter
FBI releasing shooting records amid lawsuit from Carroll County mom
July 17, 2026 -
Information Today
James Madison’s Legacy: The Past, Present, and Future of FOIA
June 8, 2026