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Anna-Marie Tabor

faculty

Anna-Marie Tabor she/her/hers

Assistant Professor

Law School / Faculty

Contact

508-910-6832

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UMass School of Law LL6

Education

2003Harvard Law SchoolJD
1999London School of EconomicsMSc
1998Harvard CollegeAB

Teaching

Programs

Teaching

Courses

Study of the development of common law concepts of enforceable promises. Encompasses the basic principles controlling the formation, performance, and termination of contracts. Includes the doctrines of offer and acceptance, consideration, conditions, breach, damages, and the Stature of Frauds.

Study of the development of common law concepts of enforceable promises. Encompasses the basic principles controlling the formation, performance, and termination of contracts. Includes the doctrines of offer and acceptance, consideration, conditions, breach, damages, and the Stature of Frauds.

Study of the development of common law concepts of enforceable promises. Encompasses the basic principles controlling the formation, performance, and termination of contracts. Includes the doctrines of offer and acceptance, consideration, conditions, breach, damages, and the Stature of Frauds.

The history of U.S. Constitutional interpretation and current doctrine concerning judicial review, the federal-state system, the Commerce Clause, separation of powers, freedoms of speech and religion, due process and equal protection. Special attention is given to current controversies regarding the "Right of Privacy" and affirmative action.

Examination of judicial federalism, including such topics as the bases for the exercise of federal judicial power; original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court; the Eleventh Amendment; suits in federal court against state officials; restrictions on federal judicial power such as the various abstention, equitable restraint and anti-injunction doctrines; Supreme Court review of state court decisions; habeas corpus; removal; federal question jurisdiction; and federal common law.

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Professor Anna-Marie Tabor joined the faculty of the University of Massachusetts School of Law in 2024.

As a practicing attorney, Professor Tabor worked to prevent unfair and discriminatory practices in financial services. She joined the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau soon after its inception and helped to develop a regulatory supervision program to prevent illegal discrimination in lending. She also served from 2018-2023 as the Director of the Pension Action Center, a free legal services program at UMass Boston that secures retirement benefits for older people and their families. During her time with the Center, the initiative recovered benefits for clients worth $7 million.

Earlier in her career, Professor Tabor served as an Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Division of the Office of the Massachusetts Attorney General, where she litigated numerous housing discrimination cases. She also worked on one of the first cases brought by a State Attorney General to allege racial discrimination against a national subprime lender in connection with conduct leading up to the Great Recession and the foreclosure crisis. She began her legal career as a litigation associate at Goodwin Procter LLP in Boston. Before attending law school, Professor Tabor worked as a Special Assistant at the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Legislative Affairs and Public Liaison. She clerked for the Honorable Bruce W. Kauffman of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.