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Anna-Marie Tabor

faculty

Anna-Marie Tabor she/her/hers

Assistant Professor

Law School / Faculty

Contact

508-910-6832

UMass School of Law LL6

Education

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

Teaching

Programs

Courses

A continuation of LAW 540 Contracts I

A continuation of LAW 540 Contracts I

A continuation of LAW 540 Contracts I

A continuation of LAW 540 Contracts I

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.

The course provides individual students with the opportunity to complete an independent legal research and writing project under the supervision of a full- time faculty member with expertise in the area studied. Permission of Full-Time Professor; Permission of Associate Dean required for second I.L.R. Of the 90 credits required for graduation, students are required to earn at least 65 in courses that meet in regularly scheduled class sessions. This course does not count toward the 65 credit requirement.

The specific topic is stated when the course is scheduled. May be repeated with change of topic.

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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.