The proportionality assessment of forced evictions and its reception in the Spanish legal system

Authors

  • Alberto Macho Carro Profesor del Área de Derecho Constitucional, Departamento de Derecho Constitucional, Procesal y Eclesiástico del Estado, Universidad de Valladolid. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9171-6239

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5944/rdp.116.2023.37161

Keywords:

European Court of Human Rights, forced evictions, horizontal effect, right to respect for the home, right to housing

Abstract

This paper aims to provide an account on the emergence, development and scope of the doctrine of the European Court of Human Rights on forced evictions, as well as its incipient jurisprudential and legislative reception in our legal system. Specifically, the study focuses on the power of those at risk of losing their home to demand a proportionality assessment of the measure by an independent tribunal, analysing the requirements that should make up this examination and the limits of its horizontal effect. Finally, the paper covers the reception of the protection against forced evictions in the case law of the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court, as well as in the Draft Law on the Right to Housing.

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Published

2023-03-20

How to Cite

Macho Carro, A. (2023). The proportionality assessment of forced evictions and its reception in the Spanish legal system. Revista de Derecho Político, (116), 297–335. https://doi.org/10.5944/rdp.116.2023.37161

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DERECHO PÚBLICO EUROPEO/EUROPEAN PUBLIC LAW