Monica Feria-Tinta is a Barrister practicing from 20 Essex Street, a leading Barrister’s Chambers in London. She a specialist in public international law. Her practice covers the full spectrum of public international law areas including statehood, law of the sea, boundary delimitation, international environmental law, transboundary environmental damage, immunities, state responsibility, treaty interpretation, international investment law, human rights and international dispute resolution. Monica acts for States and parties before international courts, and tribunals under a variety of rules (ICSID, UNCITRAL, SIAC, and ICC) and applicable laws. She has appeared/advised on cases before the ICJ, Permanent Court of Arbitration, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, UN Human Rights Committee, Inter-American Court of Human Rights, ICSID, ICC and SIAC tribunals, UN Special Rapporteurships and diplomatic fora.
Monica has developed particular expertise in international dispute resolution for climate change. She has lectured on the subject worldwide, including at the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, Hong Kong Arbitration Week, the Centre for Small States, and under the auspices of the Thailand Arbitration Centre. She is the author of several publications in international law including an upcoming book by Oxford University Press. Her more recent piece “Melting glaciers, disappearing States and endangered populations: International Dispute Resolution for Climate Change” will be published in a book by Springer. Her article “The Rise of environmental law in international dispute resolution” will appear in the Yearbook on International Environmental Law.
Recent work includes acting before the International Court of Justice (application to intervene) for a party in Legal consequences of the separation of the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius in 1965 (Request for Advisory Opinion), advising Italy on rights under the Convention on the Law of the Sea, before ITLOS and the PCA, in the Enrica Lexie case, and acting for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on a multi-million pound human rights/tort claim before the High Court. She is currently advising a party on a climate-change dispute. Prior to the Bar Monica worked for international tribunals including the International Court of Justice. She also held academic positions at the LSE and as a Visiting Scholar at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge.
Monica has been distinguished with the Gruber Justice Prize and the Inge Genefke International Award for groundbreaking work in international litigation. More recently, she has been appointed to the IUCN’s World Commission on Environmental law, the global authority on the status of the natural world and the measures needed to safeguard it. Monica holds an LL.M. with merit from the LSE and in 2000 she was awarded the prestigious Diploma of the Hague Academy in International Law.