Professor Zug teaches Family Law, Advanced Family Law, and American Indian law. She has published numerous articles on family law, immigration law and policy, and American Indian Law in publications including the Yale Law Journal, UC Davis Law Review, the BYU Law Review, The University of Kansas Law Review, Queen’s University Law Review, the Virginia Law and Policy Review, and the William and Mary Journal of Women and the Law. Professor Zug’s research focuses on the intersection of family law and immigration law and she recently published a book entitled Buying a Bride: An Engaging History of Mail-Order Matches, which was reviewed in The New Yorker, The Atlantic and The Times Literary supplement. Her op-ed on VAWA’s mail order bride amendments was published by The New Republic Magazine. In addition, her articles “Separation, Deportation, Termination” and “Should I Stay or Should I Go,” which exposed the growing practice of separating fit immigrant parents from their American citizen children, garnered national attention. Professor Zug has been quoted in numerous media outlets such as The Associated Press, CNN.com, The Guardian, and BBC Radio. She has also advised national organizations such as The Women’s Refugee Commission, The National Indian Child Welfare Association and The Southern Poverty Law Center on the legal issues facing Native American and immigrant families. In addition, she has been an invited speaker at numerous universities including the University of Maryland, Ohio State University, Queen’s University, Duke Law School, Wharton Business School, American University, and Washington University, St. Louis.
Marcia Zug is a graduate of Dartmouth College and The Yale Law School, where she was an editor of The Yale Law Journal and Developments Editor of The Yale Law and Policy Review. Before joining the faculty at The University of South Carolina, she practiced in the white collar and appellate law divisions of the New York office of Steptoe & Johnson LLP. Her pro bono work included providing legal assistance to Americans Indians with a focus on domestic disputes. Before joining Steptoe & Johnson, Professor Zug clerked for the Honorable Dolores Sloviter, former Chief Judge of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals.
Sub-specialties: Family Law, Federal Indian Law, Immigration law
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Increase use of ‘Kinship Care’ policy to address foster care shortage
The Post & Courier [January 29, 2019] -
For many immigrant families, the fight for reunification is just beginning
The Conversation [June 25, 2018] -
Traditional Problems: How Tribal Same-Sex Marriage Bans Threaten Tribal Sovereignty
Mitchell Hamline L. Rev. 761 [2017] -
Your Money or Your Life: Indian Parents and Child Support Modifications
J. Am. Acad. Matrimonial Law. 409 [2016-2017] -
Why Same-Sex Marriage Bans Risk Native American Sovereignty
The Atlantic [October 15, 2016] -
The Mail-Order Brides of Jamestown, Virginia
The Atlantic [August 31, 2016] -
A Father’s Struggle to Stop His Daughter’s Adoption
The Atlantic [July 7, 2015] -
Zug: SC must close loophole that endangers children through ‘re-homing’
The State [February 11, 2015] -
Mail Order Feminism
Wm. & Mary J. Women & L. 153 [2014-2015] -
US Supreme Court gay marriage action: Will Gov. Haley, AG Wilson waste taxpayer money?
The State [October 6, 2014] -
Undocumenting Parenting: Immigration Status as a Proxy for Parental Fitness
Child. Rts. Litig. 15 [2013-2014] -
Close Call For Indian Rights in Baby Girl Ruling
The Daily Beast [June 26, 2013] -
Veronica’s Case Does Not Question the Validity of the Indian Child Welfard Act
The New York Times [January 24, 2013] -
Lonely Colonist Seeks Wife: The Forgotten History of America's First Mail Order Brides
Duke J. Gender L. & Pol'y 85 [2012-2013] -
Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl: Two-and-a-Half Ways to Destroy Indian Law
Mich. L. Rev. First Impressions 46 [2012] -
Separation, Deportation, Termination
J. L. & Soc. Just. 63 [2012] -
Should I Stay or Should I Go: Why Immigrant Reunification Decisions Should Be Based on the Best Interest of the Child
BYU L. Rev. 1139 [2011] -
Deporting Grandma: Why Grandparent Deportation May Be the next Big Immigration Crisis and How to Solve It
U.C. Davis L. Rev. 193 [2009-2010] -
The Prohibition Hangover: Why We're Still Feeling the Effects of the Twenty-First Amendment
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Why Annie Gets to Keep Her Gun: An Analysis of Firearm Exemptions in Bankruptcy Proceedings
21 EMORY BANKR. DEV. J. 553 [2005] -
The Indian Child Welfare Act Amendments of 2003
38 FAM. L.Q. 689 [2004] -
Note: Property Rights and Sacred Sites: Federal Regulatory Responses to American Indian Religious Claims on Federal Land,
113 YALE L.J 1623 [May 2004] -
Gone but Not Forgotten: The Strange Afterlife of Article Three of the Jay Treaty (discussing the current status of article three of the Jay Treaty and its ramifications)