Margaret B. Kwoka

Saving the Freedom of Information Act

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Produktbeschreibung

The Freedom of Information Act is vital for democratic accountability. Understanding who uses it is key to re-centering its oversight purposes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9781108710893
• ISBN-10: 1108710891
• Artikelnr.: 61862020

Autorenporträt

Margaret B. Kwoka is the Lawrence Herman Professor in Law at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. Her research on FOIA has been published in the Yale Law Journal and Duke Law Journal, featured in The New York Times, and has received the Harry J. Kalven, Jr. Prize for Empirical Scholarship from the Law and Society Association. She has served on the federal FOIA Advisory Committee, testified before Congress in FOIA oversight hearings, and litigated FOIA cases, including a recent victory before the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. FOIA and Democracy: 1. Why Free Information?
2. FOIA as Oversight
Part II. Who Makes a Million FOIA Requests: 3. It Is Not the News Media
4. Immigration
5. Other First-Person Requesting
6. FOIA, Inc.
7. Information Resellers
8. Idiosyncratic Requesters
Part III. Let Oversight Reign: 9. The Problem with Repurposing FOIA
10. Affirmative Disclosure
11. Redesigning Agency Adjudications
12. Customizing Information Delivery
Conclusion.