Monica Feria-Tinta
@mferiatinta
About/Bio
Monica Feria-Tinta is a leading barrister in public international law and international arbitration at the Bar of England & Wales, practising from Twenty Essex, London. She is ‘Barrister of the Year” finalist at The Lawyer’s awards 2025. She acts for States and private parties. Her expertise covers all areas across the field of PIL. Prior to the bar she taught PIL at the LSE, as Teaching Assistant to H.E. Judge Christopher Greenwood, worked for international tribunals in the Hague (ICJ & ICTY), and appeared as counsel before regional and UN organs in landmark cases. Her international litigation work received the 2007 Gruber Justice Prize. She was awarded The Hague Academy Diploma of International Law under Prof. Pierre-Marie Dupuy in 2000.
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‘Rights of Nature’ in Human Rights Courts or a Parallel Protection System?
April 23, 2025
Monica Feria-Tinta
Editor’s note: This post is part of the EJIL:Talk! Symposium on ‘Expanding Human Rights Protection to Non-Human Subjects? African, Inter-American and European Perspectives.’ What role, if any, do human rights courts have in the protection of the natural world? Advisory Opinion 23 by the Inter-American Court on Human Rights…
Torres Strait Islanders: United Nations Human Rights Committee Delivers Ground-Breaking Decision on Climate Change Impacts on Human Rights
September 27, 2022
Monica Feria-Tinta
In a landmark decision the UN Human Rights Committee found that Australia's failure to adequately protect indigenous Torres Strait Islanders against adverse impacts of climate change was a breach of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The complaint was brought by Daniel Billy, Ted Billy, Nazareth Fauid, Stanley Marama, Yessie Mosby, Keith Pabai,…
The Rise of Environmental Law in International Dispute Resolution: Inter-American Court of Human Rights issues Landmark Advisory Opinion on Environment and Human Rights
The Inter-American Court’s Advisory Opinion on Environment and Human Rights, released on 7 February 2018 (in Spanish only) (for brevity “AO”), is the latest and potentially most significant decision in a series of high profile international judicial rulings which acknowledge legal consequences for environmental harm. As recently as 2 February 2018, the International Court of Justice in…
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Torres Strait Islanders: United Nations Human Rights Committee Delivers Ground-Breaking Decision on Climate Change Impacts on Human Rights
September 27, 2022
Monica Feria-Tinta
In a landmark decision the UN Human Rights Committee found that Australia's failure to adequately protect indigenous Torres Strait Islanders against adverse impacts of climate change was a breach of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The complaint was brought by Daniel Billy, Ted Billy, Nazareth Fauid, Stanley Marama, Yessie Mosby, Keith Pabai,…
The Rise of Environmental Law in International Dispute Resolution: Inter-American Court of Human Rights issues Landmark Advisory Opinion on Environment and Human Rights
The Inter-American Court’s Advisory Opinion on Environment and Human Rights, released on 7 February 2018 (in Spanish only) (for brevity “AO”), is the latest and potentially most significant decision in a series of high profile international judicial rulings which acknowledge legal consequences for environmental harm. As recently as 2 February 2018, the International Court of Justice in…
The South China Sea case: Chess Arbitration?
August 10, 2016
Monica Feria-Tinta
This post looks into the wider questions The South China Sea recent award raises and its possible impact. Looking back at the rare examples in international law in which States chose not to appear to participate in the proceedings, I address questions such as "what good is an award that cannot be enforced" and what role has arbitration…