Margaret B. Kwoka

Margaret B. Kwoka holds the Frank R. Strong Chair in Law at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. 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. 

Professor Kwoka’s research focuses on the Freedom of Information Act and government transparency and her scholarly articles have appeared in numerous leading law journals.  In 2021, her book, Saving the Freedom of Information Act, was published by Cambridge University Press, and in the 2022-2023 academic year, Professor Kwoka completed research on independent oversight of transparency laws in México under a Fulbright-García Robles grant.  She regularly provides expert commentary to the press and consults on FOIA matters, she has twice serviced on the federal FOIA Advisory Committee housed at the National Archives and Records Administration, and has twice testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary in FOIA oversight hearings. 

Professor Kwoka holds an A.B. from Brown University and a J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law, and she clerked for the Honorable Phillip Rapoza, Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court and the Honorable Michael Murphy, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.