Prof. Dr. Sergio Nasarre Aznar has published the report “The challenges of housing in Europe. Special attention to the evolution of the situation in Spain”, Popular Parliamentary Group in the European Parliament, 2025.
The report is available at: https://sergionasarre.eu/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/snasarre-challenges-of-housing-in-europe-2025.pdf
Dr. Héctor Simón Moreno has published the book chapter “Rights «in rem» in Europe: A comparative perspective”, in M. Font i Mas (dir.), Private International Law on Rights in rem in the European Union. Derecho internacional privado sobre derechos reales en la Unión Europea, Marcial Pons (2024)
The article can be downloaded at: https://housing.urv.cat/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/H.-Simon-property-rights.pdf
Prof. Dr. Sergio Nasarre Aznar and Dr. Maria Paula Rodríguez de Liévano have published the article “Horizontal property vs housing cooperatives in transfer of use: the success of a modern classic as inspiration for new ways of organizing life in common” (Revista Crítica de Derecho Inmobiliario, no. 806/2024).
This work analyzes the keys to the success of the Spanish condominium regime for organizing multi-family housing, in comparison with the modest presence of housing cooperatives in transfer of use, despite the insistence on its popularization through some initiatives provided with public resources.
More information at: https://www.revistacritica.es/rcdi/article/view/10496
Dr. Pablo Ruiz Osuna has published the monograph “The legal personality of intelligent automata” in the Aranzadi publishing house, the result of his doctoral thesis. The work deals with what is possibly the great invention of this century: intelligent automata. The research seeks to determine their legal nature (what are they?) and proposes a basic private legal regime for them, as new citizens and agents in legal-economic traffic.
More information at: https://tienda.aranzadilaley.es/la-personalidad-juridica-de-los-automatas-inteligentes?srsltid=AfmBOopot68QhMFEqv_cm4LSmsRSxArhhLS2KHkYi4TJSfXtNnTbndt8
Dr. Philippa Hugues, who is a research fellow at the UNESCO Chair in Housing thanks to a Marie Curie fellowship, has published the article “Regional intermediary actors and professionalism in community-led housing: implications of the enabler hub network in England” in the prestigious journal “Housing Studies”.
More information at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02673037.2024.2439455#abstract
Dr. Phillippa Hugues, postdoctoral researcher and Marie Curie fellow, and Ms. Ashjan Alsane, who is developing her thesis at the Chair on artificial intelligence, have delivered two open sessions in the context of the Comparative Law subject of the Law Degree: the first, on the situation of housing in the UK and Spain and, the second, on legal terminology in English. The sessions took place on 19 November 2024.
Dr. Joan Andreu Ferrer Guardiola has published the book “El régimen de la vivienda de uso turístico como manifestación de la Nueva Propiedad”, which will be part of the collection “Derecho de la vivienda” by the Tirant lo Blanch publisher, which coordinates the UNESCO Chair in Housing.
The books that are part of the collection can be consulted at: https://editorial.tirant.com/es/colecciones/derecho-de-la-vivienda
Prof. Dr. Sergio Nasarre Aznar and Dr. Gemma Caballé Fabra participated in the book “Derecho a la vivienda en tiempos de incertidumbre”, directed by Loreto Carmen Mate Satué, Esther Hernández Sainz and María Teresa Alonso Pérez (Aranzadi, 2024).
More information at: https://tienda.aranzadilaley.es/derecho-a-la-vivienda-en-tiempos-de-incertidumbre-1a-ed?srsltid=AfmBOorwjhUfCYlrenSAm5HsbxyHP9KQlsy1k8yP85qjnqZYfL2d0yTJ
The no. 20 of the biannual journal “Housing” of the UNESCO Housing Chair is already available. It may be downloaded here.
All the numbers are in: https://housing.urv.cat/en/cover/research/newsletter/
The following article has been published: Font-Pomarol, L., Piga, A., Nasarre-Aznar, S. et al. Language and the use of law are predictive of judge gender and seniority. EPJ Data Science. 13, 57 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjds/s13688-024-00494-x, which shows that the language and usage of law can help predict the gender and seniority of judges. It is the result of the doctoral thesis of Dr. Lluc Font-Pomarol on data science in court rulings.
Article available at: https://epjdatascience.springeropen.com/articles/10.1140/epjds/s13688-024-00494-x#citeas
