Atlanta-based King & Spalding has won a case against Spain before the United Nations Human Rights Committee, which ruled that Spain had violated the rights of the exiled former president of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont, by removing him from his regional parliamentary seat for his role in Catalonia’s 2017 independence referendum.

King & Spalding partner Ben Emmerson, the firm’s global head of public international law based in London, acted for Puigdemont. The firm represented Puigdemont pro bono.

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