Paul Laband was a German jurist, born in 1838 and dying in 1918, regarded as the leading authority on public law following German unification in 1871. Building on the work of Carl Friedrich Gerber, he applied the methods of Pandectist legal science to constitutional law, developing a rigorous legal formalism. His major work, Das Staatsrecht des Deutschen Reiches, reprinted five times between 1876 and 1914, became the most influential account of German constitutional law of the Wilhelmine era and established him as the founder of a school of public-law scholarship that dominated German legal academia into the Weimar period.
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What was Paul Laband's distinction between law in the formal sense and law in the material sense used for?
He used it to justify Bismarck's handling of the state budget without parliamentary approval.
Laband drew the distinction in his 1870 work on budget law, Das Budgetrecht, which was his first book in public law and was described as an unexpected success. By separating law in the formal sense from law in the material sense, he could justify Otto von Bismarck's management of the state budget when parliament had not approved it. The essay is now chiefly remembered for this conceptual device.
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Building on the work of Carl Friedrich Gerber, who first proposed applying Pandectist methods to public law, Laband refined and expanded upon the formalist orientation that was characteristic of the legal culture of his time.
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Paul Laband (24 May 1838 - 23 March 1918) was a German jurist widely regarded as the leading authority on public law in the period following the national unification and the establishment of the German Empire in 1871.
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His book Das Staatsrecht des Deutschen Reiches was reprinted five times between 1876 and 1914 and is considered the most influential exposition of German constitutional law of the Wilhelmine era, as well as a paradigmatic statement of late 19th-century legal positivism.
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occupation/position claim resolves to: Jurist and Lawyer
Wikidata Q68818, P569 date of birth claim (year)
P569 (date of birth): 1838
Wikidata Q68818, P569 date of birth claim (full date)
P569 (date of birth): 1838-05-24
Wikidata Q68818, P570 date of death claim (year)
P570 (date of death): 1918
Wikidata Q68818, P570 date of death claim (full date)
P570 (date of death): 1918-03-23
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P19 (place of birth): Wrocław
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P20 (place of death): Strasbourg
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