# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-laband
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:52:18.504Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-laband"
name: "Paul Laband"
slug: "paul-laband"
description: "Paul Laband 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. 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. 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. According to this view, legal science has a \"constructive task\" – the development and rationalisation of the legal system – in performing which it must be guided solely by legal logic, without attributing any relevance to \"historical, political and philosophical\" considerations."
tagline: "German legal historian (1838–1918)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Laband-paul-in-sinzheimer-hugo-juedische-klassiker-der-deutschen-rechtswissenschaft-amsterdam-1938-s180ff.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1838-05-24"
deathDate: "1918-03-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.69
  momentum:             1.263940520446097
  historical:           11.34424133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Пауль Лабанд"
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    title: "بول لاباند"
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    title: "Paul Laband"
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    title: "Paul Laband"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Laband"
    title: "Paul Laband"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Laband"
    title: "Paul Laband"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Laband"
    title: "Paul Laband"
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  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Laband"
    title: "Paul Laband"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Laband"
    title: "Paul Laband"
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  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Laband"
    title: "Paul Laband"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Laband"
    title: "Paul Laband"
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    title: "Лабанд, Пауль"
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  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Laband"
    title: "Paul Laband"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump