Mónica Feria Tinta

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Monica Feria-Tinta (born 1966) is a British-Peruvian barrister who specializes in public international law. She works from Twenty Essex in London and is one of Britain’s leading experts in this field. She was the first Latin American lawyer to be called to the Bar of England and Wales, and in 2000 she became the first Peruvian-born lawyer to receive the Diploma of The Hague Academy of International Law.

Her work covers international tribunals, human rights, and climate law. She helped shape important international human rights decisions, including cases before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the UN Human Rights Committee. She was counsel in the Los Cedros case in Ecuador, which recognized the Rights of Nature. In 2019–2020 she worked on climate-related litigation and helped develop a method to interpret treaties in light of climate action, a principle later echoed by the UN and other courts. She has held roles as a visiting fellow at Cambridge, a teaching assistant at the London School of Economics, and a Bencher at Middle Temple, and she contributed to the Rome Statute negotiations. She also served as an assistant legal adviser to the UK Foreign Office.

Awards and honors:
- Inge Genefke International Award (2006)
- Gruber Justice Prize (2007), the youngest recipient
- Featured in the Century of Women in Law exhibition (2019)
- The Times’ Lawyer of the Week (2025)
- Woman of the Year, Women & Diversity Law Awards (2025)

She published A Barrister for the Earth in 2025.