Constitutional reflections on the distribution of competences regarding Spanish civil legislation

Abstract

On the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the approval and entry into force of a large part of the Statutes of Autonomy, the basic rules of the Autonomous Communities and Autonomous Cities in which the political power of the Spanish State is territorially distributed, this work shows the heterogeneous process of development of civil law in these territorial entities. It also analyses the problem of the future of Spanish civil law from the point of view of its territorial structure. Finally, this work proposes a constitutional solution that could be a starting point to mitigate the difficulties presented by the current scenario.