Esade's Patrimonial Law Group is a consolidated research group recognized by AGAUR, whose research revolves around lines of inquiry from which all disseminated and transferred scientific production emanates. These lines are broad and significant enough to ensure a certain stability that allows for cohesion and coherence in all research activities of the group, both collectively and individually.
Sources of and influences on the harmonisation of property law; legal tensions and reference models; adjustments and imbalances in fiscal harmonisation; relationships between internal rights and supranational law.
Review of legal/real typicality; assumption and coverage of risks in the dynamics of management; the tension of personal/family property; strategic estate planning and conflict management; regulation and profitability of legal/fiscal systems; mobility, urban housing, and rural housing in the post-COVID-19 digital era: taxes, customs, and financial situation; the exercise for ownership that deals with taxation in the donation of the family business.
Corporate capitalism in the 21st century; organisational models in national and transnational relationships; guarantees of internal functioning and external efficiency; domestic and international taxation of companies; cooperative society law; financial market law; compliance.
Adapting the law to new modes of contracting; review of the contractual principles and paradigm of the system; impact of the market and consumption on contracts; contractual regime within the framework of creditor´s meeting; legal regulation of responsible lending; regulation on obligations and penalties regarding the duty of information and the assessment of solvency of lending entities.
Crowdfunding financing: rights and obligations of investors and entrepreneurs in current Spanish regulations; convertible loans as a financing mechanism for startups; financing startups through crypto assets; the contract of joint accounts as an investment and financing instrument; proposal for the modernization of the joint accounts contract: reflections lege ferenda.
Research. Our aim is to conduct research. We conceive of research in terms of functionality, never as an end in itself or as a pretext for addressing selective recipients who feed an endogamic cycle of legal research in order to justify non-essential expenditures, certify “party-line” curricula or cultivate an elitist superiority shielded by poorly understood theory. Legal research does not make discoveries, nor does it claim findings; for private-law scholars, research entails making reasoned and reasonable proposals that better allow individuals to defend their interests and achieve their ends, provided that these ends are legitimate and lawful from the perspective of coexistence and social peace. Finally, research – and especially the results thereof – must be transferred. The following are the various formulas and channels by which we facilitate said transfer (actions):
