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Paul Laband (24 May 1838 – 23 March 1918) was a German jurist and the German Empire's leading scholar of
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* ''Der Streit über die Thronfolge im Fürstentum Lippe.'' Berlin 1896
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* ''Staatsrechtliche Vorlesungen. Vorlesungen zur Geschichte des Staatsdenkens, zur Staatstheorie und Verfassungsgeschichte und zum deutschen Staatsrecht des 19. Jahrhunderts, gehalten an der Kaiser-Wilhelm-Universität Straßburg 1872–1918.'' Ed. by Bernd Schlüter. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2004, .
Paul Laband (24 May 1838 – 23 March 1918) was a German jurist and the German Empire's leading scholar of constitutional law
Constitutional law is a body of law which defines the role, powers, and structure of different entities within a state, namely, the executive, the parliament or legislature, and the judiciary; as well as the basic rights of citizens and, in fed ...
.
Life and work
Labant was born into a Jewish family and converted to Christianity in 1857. He studied law at Breslau,Heidelberg
Heidelberg (; Palatine German language, Palatine German: ''Heidlberg'') is a city in the States of Germany, German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the river Neckar in south-west Germany. As of the 2016 census, its population was 159,914 ...
and Berlin
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, and obtained his habilitation
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in Heidelberg in 1861. He was called to teach at Königsberg
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in 1864, and at Strasbourg in 1872, where he taught until his retirement. The Imperial government appointed him as councillor of state of Alsace-Lorraine in 1879 and as a member of that state's legislature in 1911. He was a signatory of the Manifesto of the Ninety-Three
The "Manifesto of the Ninety-Three" (originally "To the Civilized World" by "Professors of Germany") is a 4 October 1914 proclamation by 93 prominent Germans supporting Germany in the start of World War I. The Manifesto galvanized support for the w ...
that supported Germany's entry into World War I.
Laband's writings on constitutional law are characterized by a formalist approach focused on terminology and logic, disregarding other rules of statutory interpretation
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such as historical, philosophical, political or teleological
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considerations. In a 1870 paper on Prussian budget law, he established the distinction made in German legal scholarship between laws in the formal sense and laws in the material sense. Laband was also influential as the editor of several leading law review
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s and as the author of the textbook ''Staatsrecht des deutschen Reiches'', which appeared in five editions until 1914.
Works
* ''Beiträge zur Kunde des Schwabenspiegels.'' Berlin 1861 * ''Das Magdeburg-Breslauer systematische Schöffenrecht.'' Berlin 1863 * ''Jura Prutenorum.'' Königsberg 1866 * ''Magdeburger Rechtsquellen.'' Königsberg 1869 * ''Die vermögensrechtlichen Klagen nach den sächsischen Rechtsquellen des Mittelalters.'' Königsberg 1869 * ''Das Budgetrecht nach den Bestimmungen der preußischen Verfassungsurkunde.'' Berlin 1871 * ''Das Finanzrecht des Deutschen Reichs.'' In: Hirths: ''Annalen.'' 1873 * ''Das Staatsrecht des Deutschen Reichs.'' 3 volumes. Laupp, Tübingen 1876–1882 * ''Die Wandlungen der deutschen Reichsverfassung.'' Dresden 1895digitized
* ''Der Streit über die Thronfolge im Fürstentum Lippe.'' Berlin 1896
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* ''Staatsrechtliche Vorlesungen. Vorlesungen zur Geschichte des Staatsdenkens, zur Staatstheorie und Verfassungsgeschichte und zum deutschen Staatsrecht des 19. Jahrhunderts, gehalten an der Kaiser-Wilhelm-Universität Straßburg 1872–1918.'' Ed. by Bernd Schlüter. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2004, .
Further reading
* * * Reinhard Mußgnug: ''Paul Laband (1838-1918).'' In: Peter Häberle,Michael Kilian
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, Heinrich Amadeus Wolff Heinrich may refer to:
People
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(Hrsg.): ''Staatsrechtslehrer des 20. Jahrhunderts.'' De Gruyter, Berlin 2014, , S. 3–28, doi:10.1515/9783110303780.3.
* Bernhard Schlink
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: ''Laband als Politiker.'' In: ''Der Staat'' 31 (1992), S. 553–569.
* Bernd Schlüter: ''Reichswissenschaft: Staatsrechtslehre, Staatstheorie und Wissenschaftspolitik im Deutschen Kaiserreich am Beispiel der Reichsuniversität Straßburg.'' Dissertation. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2004, .
* Johannes Wilhelm: ''Die Lehre von Staat und Gesetz bei Paul Laband.'' Diss., Köln 1967.
References
External links
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Laband, Paul German jurists 1838 births 1918 deaths Academic staff of the University of Strasbourg German scholars of constitutional law