Faculty
Charles M. Lamb
Professor
Ph.D., University of Alabama
Email: clamb@buffalo.edu
Phone: 716-645-645-8441
Office: 503 Park Hall
Current CV in PDF format: Charles Lamb's 2009 CV
Areas of Teaching and Research Interest:
Public Law (constitutional law, civil liberties, judicial politics); Public Policy (policy making, implementation, civil rights, housing); American Politics (presidency, courts, urban and ethnic politics); Politics and History (presidency; bureaucracy; Congress; interest groups).
Courses Taught:
PSC 101, Introduction to American Politics
PSC 211, Issues in Contemporary Politics
PSC 215, Law and the Political Process
PSC 301, Cases in Civil Liberties
PSC 302, Protecting Civil Liberties
PSC 303, Constitutional Law
PSC 305, Judicial Politics
PSC 314, Public Policy Making
PSC 324, Politics of Housing
PSC 401, Advanced Civil Liberties
PSC 506, Policy Making Process
PSC 561, Constitutional Law
PSC 662, Judicial Process
PSC 668, Public Policy Problems
PSC 675, Implementing Civil Rights
PSC 761, American Political Frontiers
Current Research:
A book entitled Fair Housing in Twentieth Century America. Articles
including "Federalism, Efficiency, and Civil Rights Enforcement," "Do
Presidents Control Bureaucracy? The Federal Housing Administration
during the Truman-Eisenhower Era," and "Patterns of Behavior of
Administrative Law Judges in Federal Fair Housing Enforcement."
Brief Bio:
Charles M. Lamb is Professor of Political Science. Before coming to UB, he was a research scientist at George Washington University and an equal opportunity specialist at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. He is the author of Housing Segregation in Suburban America since 1960: Presidential and Judicial Politics. He has also published in professional journals and co-edited four books: Supreme Court Activism and Restraint; Implementation of Civil Rights Policy; Judicial Conflict and Consensus: Behavioral Studies of American Appellate Courts; and The Burger Court: Political and Judicial Profiles.
Selected Recent Research:
"Federalism, Efficiency, and Civil Rights Enforcement." Political Research Quarterly (forthcoming)(with Eric M. Wilk).
"Presidents, Bureaucrats, and Housing Discrimination Policy: The Fair Housing Acts of 1968 and 1988," Politics and Policy 37: 128-150 (2009) (with Eric M. Wilk).
"Civil Rights, Federalism, and the Administrative Process: Favorable Outcomes by Federal, State, and Local Agencies in Housing Discrimination Complaints," Public Administration Review (forthcoming)(with Eric M. Wilk).