Julius Binder was born in
Würzburg in 12 May 1870, then part of the
North German Confederation. He joined the political party in 1890 and stayed in it the rest of his life. Binder studied law in Würzburg with honors (1894) and earned his
habilitation in 1898. Afterward, he became professor in Rostock (1900), Erlangen (1903), Würzburg (1913) and eventually the
University of Göttingen (1919). He participated in the founding of the and became a member of the
Göttingen Academy of Sciences. In 1915, he wrote , which applied the concept of rights from
Immanuel Kant to the legal system. He later became a strong critic of
Neokantian legal philosophy, especially the philosophy of law of
Rudolf Stammler. Since the 1920s, Julius Binder—and later along with
Karl Larenz, , and
Walther Schönfeld—applied a
Neohegelian approach to jurisprudence in the system of the so-called "objective idealism". Binder was the academic teacher of the German legal philosopher and
civil law proponent Karl Larenz. Binder rejected
legal positivism. Other related influences on Binder and people he influenced include ,
Ludwig Prandtl, ,
Hugo Willrich, and . Binder, along with
Ernst Forsthoff,
Carl Schmitt, Karl Larenz, and other legal philosophers, did not criticize the Nazi legal system. Binder died in 1939 in Göttingen. == Literary works ==