11 June 2014
Bilbao Campus
The lecturers at the University of Deusto Javier Larena, Oscar Monje and the Head of Government and Parliament Relations Secretariat, Santiago Larrazabal, attended the ceremony to present the 2013 Jesús María Leizaola Award to PhD student Saioa Artiach.
The Basque Government has chosen the dissertation defended by Saioa Artiach as the winner of the 2013 Jesús María Leizaola Award.
The dissertation is entitled: Aspectos sustantivos y procesales del contrato de arrendamiento rústico. Su regulación en el Derecho Civil de Araba, Bizkaia y Gipuzkoa de los Siglos XVI a XIX y en la Ley 49/2003, de 26 de noviembre. Un medio para la gestión del patrimonio de la persona. It wasdefended by Saioa Artiach Camacho in May at the University of Deusto.
The thesis will be published by the Basque Government under the following title: "Aspectos sustantivos y procesales del contrato de arrendamiento rústico. Su regulación en el Derecho civil de Araba, Bizkaia y Gipuzkoa de los siglos XVI a XIX. Un medio para la gestión del patrimonio de la persona". It aims to prove that there was Basque regional law regulating lease agreements on rural properties based on the same principles and with the same content in Alava, Biscay and Guipuzkoa before this legislation was unified in the Civil Code.
As research for her dissertation, Saioa Artiach examined the content of 382 notarial, legal and private documents that led to rural property leases granted from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries in the three Basque historical provinces. The authenticity of these documents has been proven because they come from historical archives where a total of 2,673 documents were read.
This made it possible to identify the characteristics of the parties entering into these contracts, the type of property being leased, the particular aspects, duration and makeup of these agreements. One point that was examined in depth was the use of public deeds in which the lease agreement for the rural property was granted. Other types of contracts were also studied, such as share-farming and livestock farming.
Ms. Artiach went on to analyse the main obligations assumed by Basque lessees and lessors during this period and the different channels used to guarantee compliance with these agreements. She also indicated the particular features of expert intervention and subletting and lease transfers.
Lastly, she revealed the different customary regional laws regulating rural lease agreements in the documents examined, confirming that they preceded the Castilian regulations and indicating the regulations based on Roman and Castilian law that the contracting parties expressly waived.
Saioa Artiach studied her BA in Law, Master's degree in Law and Legal Practice and PhD in Law at the University of Deusto. She has taken part in numerous scientific meetings, conferences and symposiums organised by the university.
She is a member of the Law Faculty's Basque Civil Law research team, whose activities are “a priority research area”. She has also spent several years working on research subsidised through Deiker, received various research grants from the university and published articles with the Deusto University Press.
