Adverse Acquisition and European Basic Rights Frameworks: Legal-Philosophical-Computational Inquiry

Descripción del proyecto

Un análisis más detallado del derecho a la vivienda en comunidades marginadas

La vivienda ha pasado de ser considerada un refugio y un derecho humano fundamental a ser tratada como un bien de mercado sujeto a la obtención de beneficios. Aunque el acceso a una vivienda asequible constituye uno de los valores fundamentales de Europa, su mercantilización está limitando ese acceso. En el proyecto SQUAT, que cuenta con el respaldo de las acciones Marie Skłodowska-Curie, se examinarán las implicaciones de este fenómeno para los sintecho, los ocupas, los romaníes y los migrantes que carecen de acceso a una vivienda con título de propiedad legal. En concreto, se redefinirán los conceptos de ocupación ilegal, sinhogarismo, tenencia y usucapión a través de métodos filosóficos y basados en datos. También se compararán las leyes sobre ocupación ilegal en Italia, Polonia y el Reino Unido para evaluar su compatibilidad con las normas europeas. En este sentido, se utilizarán técnicas de procesamiento del lenguaje natural para analizar la evolución de estos conceptos jurídicos.

Objetivo

"SQUAT is an innovative 24-month research project examining squatting, informal settlements, and home invasion through European human rights frameworks. The project challenges traditional property law paradigms by developing a comprehensive legal-philosophical-computational analysis of housing rights from society's margins.
The research addresses Europe's housing crisis by examining tensions between human rights to housing and property rights. While affordable housing is a core European value, commodification of residential units restricts access. Traditional scholarship remains trapped in a ""legal-title-trap,"" focusing on formal ownership while ignoring housing practices of marginalized communities including homeless people, political squatters, Roma, Travellers, and migrants for whom squatting may be the only available tenure. Recent criminalization of squatting across Europe makes this research urgent.
The project pursues three objectives: reconstructing concepts of squatting, homelessness, tenure, and adverse possession using philosophical and data-driven methods; developing comparative analysis of squatting laws across UK, Italy, and Poland to test compatibility with European human rights standards; and constructing an ambitious normative theory providing moral and legal appraisal of squatting.
SQUAT pioneers integration of computational linguistics with normative legal theory through Natural Language Processing using Word2Vec to analyze how legal concepts evolve across frameworks, combining computational analysis of legal corpora with traditional scholarship, and employing Queloz's needs-based concept appraisal evaluating concepts by practical needs rather than abstract definitions. This represents the first application of word-embedding techniques to property-related concepts in European human rights contexts. The project transcends existing scholarship by reframing squatting as potential rights-claiming rather than law-breaking."