Monica Feria-Tinta: podcast appearances and interviews

Monica Feria-Tinta is a British and Peruvian barrister practicing at Twenty Essex chambers in London. She is recognized as a specialist in public international law and has been described as one of Britain's most dazzling legal minds. Feria-Tinta is notable for being the first Latin American lawyer called to and practicing at the Bar of England and Wales. Her legal work includes significant cases such as acting as counsel in the first international human rights court decision to order the prosecution of a former head of state for crimes under international law. She has received awards including the Inge Genefke International Award in 2006 and the Gruber Justice Prize in 2007, the latter awarded at a ceremony attended by US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Her affiliations include membership in the American Society of International Law, partnership at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, and a visiting fellowship at Jesus College, University of Cambridge. Feria-Tinta was among 64 distinguished women barristers featured in 2019 in the Century of Women in Law exhibition at the Middle Temple, where she is a Bencher. In recent years, she has gained recognition for her work in climate change litigation, including acting in the Torres Strait Islanders case before the United Nations Human Rights Committee. The case resulted in a groundbreaking decision recognizing state responsibility for protecting indigenous peoples from climate change impacts under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. She is a pioneer in climate change law, applying principles of systemic integration to treaty interpretation, leading to major legal breakthroughs in aligning treaties with climate action, including her 2024 scholarly analysis of this interpretive approach.