Monica is a barrister, a specialist in public International law, at the Bar of England & Wales. She is counsel in the Torres Strait Islanders case, the first world case directly addressing climate change, before the United Nations Human Rights Committee. She is also lead counsel in the Cerrejon mine case - seeking closure of one of the largest open pit mines in the world and lead counsel in the Montara Oil Spill case (one of Australia's worst oil disasters). She currently represents cases raising sea-level rise issues, sinking islands, environmental degradation, oil spills, transboundary harm, climate change as a human rights issue, environmental harm of waterways, protection of rivers, biodiversity, phasing-out coal mining and the enforcement of the Paris Agreement before a variety of international courts and tribunals, and other mechanisms such as UN Special Procedures and OECD procedures. Monica has also advised Sovereign States on remedies for climate change before international courts and tribunals in particular before the international Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) and the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Because of her ground-breaking work on climate change litigation, she was featured in The Lawyer "Hot 100" last year, as amongst "the most daring, innovative and creative lawyers" in the United Kingdom, and was "Barrister of the Year" Finalist in The Lawyers' Awards 2020. Monica holds an LLM (LSE) and the Diploma from The Hague Academy in International Law. She is a Partner Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge.