Monica Feria-Tinta is an award-wining barrister and the author of A Barrister for the Earth. Referred to as ‘a vital book for our times’ and ‘radically rethinking our way of inhabiting the Earth’, the book has been shortlisted for the Westminster Book Awards. Monica acted in the seminal Rights of Nature case Los Cedros - a world precedent on an eco-centric approach to nature protection, and on landmark climate cases globally.

 

Her work has created systemic changes addressing climate change and the protection of the natural world.  Monica has been referred to as ‘one of Britain's most dazzling legal minds’; she was a ‘Barrister of the Year’ finalist at The Lawyer Awards 2025 and The Times’ first “Lawyer of the Week” in 2025. Her work has been covered in The Times, The Guardian, Prospect Magazine, Vogue, Vanity Fair Italia, and BBC Radio 3 and 4.