Publication

Dr. Héctor Simón has published the article “Squatting in Spain: the tension between the right to private property and the right to housing” in the latest issue (131) of the “Legal Studies” Magazine (Poland).

The article is available at: https://czasopisma.inp.pan.pl/index.php/sp/issue/view/513 and here

https://housing.urv.cat/portada/recerca/working-papers/

Review

A review of Dr. Pablo Ruiz Osuna’s book “The Legal Personality of Intelligent Automata” has been published in the Diario La Ley.

The review is available at: https://diariolaley.laleynext.es/Content/Documento.aspx?params=H4sIAAAAAAEAMtMSbF1jTAAAiNzEwMzE7Wy1KLizPw8WyMDI1MDS0NDkEBmWqVLfnJIZUGqbVpiTnEqAPkaseg1AAAAWKE

The book is available at: https://tienda.aranzadilaley.es/la-personalidad-juridica-de-los-automatas-inteligentes?srsltid=AfmBOopot68QhMFEqv_cm4LSmsRSxArhhLS2KHkYi4TJSfXtNnTbndt8

Publication

Dr. Héctor Simón has published the article “Housing and the welfare state” within the framework of the 4th Congress of Economy and Business of Catalonia “Towards a more digital and sustainable economy”.

The article is available at: https://housing.urv.cat/portada/recerca/working-papers/

Journal Housing

The no. 22 of the biannual journal “Housing” of the UNESCO Housing Chair is already available. It may be downloaded here.

Housing policies in Europe – Magazine TAG COAATT

Issue 101 of TAG Magazine (July 2025), published by the Tarragona Association of Quantity Surveyors, Technical Architects, and Building Engineers (COAATT), has published the article “The Challenges of Housing in Europe” by Dr. Héctor Simón, which reviews Professor Dr. Sergio Nasarre’s report “The Challenges of Housing in Europe. Special Attention to the Evolution and Situation in Spain”.

Available at: https://issuu.com/coaatt/docs/tag_101_juliol_2025

Publication

The book “The legal personality of intelligent automata” (Aranzadi, 2025), by Dr. Pablo Ruiz Osuna, has been reviewed, which has been published in the Indret Legal Journal.

The review is available at: https://raco.cat/index.php/InDret/article/view/10000006585

Publication

Dr. Héctor Simón has published  the article “Las políticas de vivienda en España: de la propiedad a la precarización” in the RICSH Revista Iberoamericana De Las Ciencias Sociales Y Humanísticas, 14(27), 30 – 51. https://doi.org/10.23913/ricsh.v14i27.356.

The article is available at: https://housing.urv.cat/portada/recerca/working-papers/

Publication

Dr. Mª Paula Rodríguez de Liévano has published the monograph “Los Derechos Humanos en la vivienda colaborativa” in the “Derecho de la Vivienda” collection of Editorial Tirant lo Blanch, the result of her doctoral thesis. The work aims at the collaborative housing model, focusing on cohousing communities and their formula of housing cooperatives in transfer of use, as these are the schemes promoted in Spain as housing alternatives in constant increase.

More information at: https://editorial.tirant.com/es/libro/los-derechos-humanos-en-la-vivienda-colaborativa-maria-paula-rodriguez-lievano-9791370101800

Journal Housing

The no. 21 of the biannual journal “Housing” of the UNESCO Housing Chair is already available. It may be downloaded here.

Publication

Dr. Héctor Simón has published with Dr. Padraic Kenna the article “Protecting homeloan borrowers in the emerging EU secondary market for non-performing loans” in the Journal of Property, Planning and Environmental law.

The article is available at: https://housing.urv.cat/portada/recerca/working-papers/