Descripción del proyecto
Estudio jurídico basado en datos de casos de desahucio
Los desahucios forzosos constituyen una violación de los derechos humanos. El derecho a la vivienda está reconocido en el Derecho y los reglamentos internacionales y europeos. Sin embargo, los casos de desahucio normalmente dependen de las prerrogativas de las legislaciones nacionales, las cuales, con frecuencia, no ofrecen la protección adecuada a las personas sin propiedades. El proyecto EVICT, financiado con fondos europeos, estudiará unos mil casos de desahucio durante la crisis financiera en la Unión Europea (2007-2011). Los hallazgos arrojarán luz sobre si el Derecho internacional a la vivienda tiene repercusión en la legislación nacional y en qué medida. Concretamente, el proyecto aplicará una estrategia basada en datos en la disciplina jurídica, al utilizar un análisis de redes de citaciones para examinar la interacción entre las legislaciones internacionales y nacionales.
Objetivo
Eviction – the involuntary loss of one’s home – has a devastating impact on people’s wellbeing and has severe consequences for society as a whole. During and after the financial crisis of 2007-2011, over 700,000 people in Europe either lost their homes or were at risk of losing them.
National courts use national laws to rule on whether an eviction is just. However, the right to housing, as laid down in international and European law, often demands more protection of the power- and propertyless than national laws prescribe. As a result, national courts are at the centre of the complex interaction between national and international law. In times of growing national resistance towards international law, the questions whether, how, and why international law impacts on national law are among the most topical that legal scholars face.
Evictions provide a timely opportunity to determine why international rights, such as the right to housing, may or may not have an impact on national law. The financial crisis has led to an enormous amount of case law (legal big data). The combination of the developed, but understudied, international right to housing and these vast amounts of national data offers a unique opportunity to examine the interaction between international law and national law.
It is impossible to analyse all judgments manually. Therefore, I will use a data-driven approach that is unique in the legal discipline. Using citation network analysis, I conceptualise the right to housing as a network of international rights and conduct the first empirical analysis of the impact of this right in case law from national supreme courts and lower level courts. With the use of machine learning, I will identify predictors for courts’ decisions, and explain how these predictors may mirror the right to housing. This approach has long been called for but, so far, rarely been executed. If successful, it could be used in future research projects in other areas of the law.
Ámbito científico
Programa(s)
Régimen de financiación
ERC-STG - Starting GrantInstitución de acogida
9712CP Groningen
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