Sergio Nasarre-Aznar

Prof. Dr. Sergio Nasarre-Aznar, Ph.D, M.Phil. (Cantab.) (Tarragona, Spain, 1974) is a Civil Law Full Professor at University Rovira i Virgili and the Director of the Chair of Housing. Deputy Court of Appeal Judge, he is member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation since 2008. He has been awarded by an ICREA Fellowship to the excellence of research (2016-2020).

He is the author of three books on the international mortgage markets and tort law; and has coordinated four, about trusts (2006), new legislative trends in mortgage law (2009), family law (2011) and housing law (2011).

He has published more than 80 research articles and book chapters in several countries such as Spain, Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Portugal, The Netherlands, United States of America and Poland. He has taken part as a speaker in about 100 Conferences and Scientific events in many European countries and in the United States.

He has researched in several European Universities and Research Centres such as the University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, Association of German Mortgage Banks, Universität Münster, Universität Freiburg and University of Duke.

He has been appointed member of several commissions to draft new pieces of legislation both for the Catalan and the Spanish Government on trusts (2006), protection of mortgagors (2011), leases (2012), housing policy (2012) and intermediate tenures (2012). He has advised public and private institutions in his fields of expertise (European land law, securitisation, trusts, torts, housing and mortgages).

He is currently leading since 2009 six research projects about housing and is the Spanish partner for the TenLaw Project of the 7th Framework Programme EU Commission (2012-2015) and member of the coordination committee of the EU Research Project on Evictions and Homelessness (2013-2015) and member of the EU Parliament project on cross-border acquisition of land (2015). He is also a member of the Runder Tisch in Berlin (since 2006) in relation to mortgage law in Europe.