Numerary Member
Social Sciences: Doctor in Law and Political Science
Date of admittance: 3 June 2024
Admission Speech: “Acceso a la vivienda: análisis de la situación y propuestas de actuación”
Reply by: Ms. Dr. Teresa Freixes Sanjuán, Doctor of Law
DR. FERNANDO P. MÉNDEZ GONZÁLEZ
Graduate in Law from the University of Valencia. Doctor cum laude in Law and Political Science from the University of Barcelona.
Commercial and Movable Property Registrar of Barcelona.
Associate Professor of the University of Barcelona.
Member of the European Law Institute -ELI-.
Doctor Honoris Causa from the National University of Peru in Cajamarca.
Full member of the Brazilian Academy of Registry Law.
Distinguished Professor of the University of Havana.
Founder and First President of the European Land Registry Association –ELRA- (2003-2005).
Dean of the College of Property, Commercial and Personal Property Registrars of Spain (2001-2006).
Director of International Relations of the College of Registrars (2013-2017).
Autonomous Dean of the Property, Commercial and Personal Property Registrars of Catalonia (1993-2001).
Great Cross of San Raimundo de Peñafort (2005).
Julio Chagas Medal from the Institute of Real Estate Registry of Brazil -2006.
Royal Commission of the Order of Civil Merit -2018-.
In October 1993, together with Alfonso Hernández, he published in “La Vanguardia, the article entitled “Mortgage Change Cost”, which produced an unprecedented impact on the Spanish mortgage panorama. In March 1994, the Cortes unanimously approved the Law on Subrogation and Modification of Mortgage Loans, based on said article.
He has been part of the groups of experts that have prepared various regulatory texts, among others, those of the Land Law of 2007 and Law 4/2013 on measures to flexibilize and promote the housing rental market.
He has published five monographs, directed and participated in various collective works and published numerous articles.
