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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
| 2003 | Harvard Law School | JD |
| 1999 | London School of Economics | MSc |
| 1998 | Harvard College | AB |
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, third-party beneficiaries, assignments, and the Statute 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, third-party beneficiaries, assignments, and the Statute 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, third-party beneficiaries, assignments, and the Statute of Frauds.
Select publications
- Anna-Marie Tabor (2022).
Riding Out a Pension Risk Transfer Storm: Revisiting Participant Protections for Pension Buy-Outs
NYU Review of Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation, ch. 12 - Anna-Marie Tabor (2022).
Retirement Lost: Enhancing the Durability of the 401(k) Account
Dickinson Law Review, 126, 515. - Anna-Marie Tabor (2020).
Unclaimed Defined Benefit Pensions Can Help COVID-19 Economic Recovery
Journal of Law and Social Policy, 32, 488.
Anna-Marie Tabor joins the faculty this year as a Visiting Professor of Law.
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.