Journal Housing

The no. 20 of the biannual journal “Housing” of the UNESCO Housing Chair is already available. It may be downloaded here.

Publication

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

The outcome of the CEJFE Project on urban leases in the Catalan Civil Code already available

Centre d’Estudis Jurídics i Formació Especialitzada (CEJFE) funded a project on the analysis of the draft bill introducing urban leases into the sixth book of the Civil Code of Catalonia.

The outcome is available here: https://cejfe.gencat.cat/ca/recerca/cataleg/crono/2024/avantprojecte-llei-contracte-arrendament/

Participation in the Housing Council of Tarragona

Dr. Héctor Simón took part on Wednesday, 24 July, in the plenary session of the Housing Council of Tarragona on behalf of the UNESCO Housing Chair. This Council is a consultative body with the capacity to prepare constructive proposals so as to guide the city’s housing policy. Its constitution was proposed in the Tarragona Housing Local Plan 2021-2026, drawn up by the UNESCO Housing Chair.

More information at: https://smhausa.cat/consell-de-lhabitatge-de-tarragona/

Local Housing Plan of Passanant i Belltall (Conca de Barberà)

On July 27th, the Passanant i Belltall Local Housing Action Plan was presented, drawn up by the UNESCO Housing Chair.

 

Workshop MUDEC

Dr. Philippa Hughes, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Liverpool, who is doing a research stay at the Chair, participated on Wednesday, 29 May 2024, in the Seminar on the subject “Real Estate Contracting” of the Master’s Degree in Business and Contracting Law (MUDEC) of the Rovira i Virgili University, with the presentation “Collaborative and community-led housing; drivers governance, and challenges”.

More information about the Master at: https://www.urv.cat/ca/estudis/masters/oferta/dret-empresa/

Journal Housing

The no. 19 of the biannual journal “Housing” of the Chair is already available. It may be downloaded at: https://housing.urv.cat/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/HousingCHURV19.pdf. 

Conference on Property Managers

Dr. Gemma Caballé participates in the “III Jornadas Gallegas Jacinto Peleteiro Otero”, organized by the College of Property Managers of Galicia, which will take place the 22nd and 23th February 2024.

More information at: https://coafga.org/es/iii-xornadas-galegas-jacinto-peleteiro-otero-23-y-24-de-febrero-de-2024-coruna

Local Housing Plan of Salomó

The UNESCO Chair in Housing has been awarded the contract for the drafting of the Municipal Housing Action Plan of Salomó City Council (Tarragona).

Publication of an article about the European Housing Studies

Prof. Dr. Sergio Nasarre has published the article “El European Housing Studies: la primera formación europea para profesionales inmobiliarios” in the collective work “”Innovación docente y renovación pedagógica en derecho Especial referencia a experiencias exitosas de proyectos de innovación docente y la utilización de herramientas y metodologías colaborativas“, coordinated by Carlos Soria Rodríguez (Dykinson, 2023).
The article can be downloaded free of charge at: https://www.dykinson.com/libros/innovacion-docente-y-renovacion-pedagogica-en-derecho/9788411703581/