Rita de la Feria

Rita de la Feria received her law degree from the University of Lisbon, having specialised in tax law and economic law. She then began her professional career as a tax consultant with Arthur Andersen, working in both their Lisbon and Dublin offices. In 2006, she completed her PhD on EU VAT harmonisation at the Law School of the University of Dublin, Trinity College.

Prior to joining Oxford University, Rita de la Feria held lecturing positions on Tax Law and EU Law at both the University of Dublin, Trinity College and Queen's University Belfast. She was a visiting scholar at New York University, Law School in 2008, an AJAX Visiting Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales, Sydney in 2009, and Visiting Professor at the University of Lisbon in 2010. She teaches regularly at the Catholic University of Portugal, Global Law School, Lisbon.

She has published widely on tax issues, particularly on EU VAT, and presented to academic, practitioner, and tax administration audiences, the latter amongst others within the framework of the European Commission's Fiscalis Programme. Most notably, she is the author of the book The EU VAT System and the Internal Market (Amsterdam: IBFD, 2009), and the editor of the loose-leaf A Handbook of EU VAT Legislation (The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2004 onwards), which is updated bi-annually. Her work is cited regularly by the courts, including the EU Court of Justice. 

She is a member of the editorial board of the British Tax Review, a contributing author for Highlights & Insights on European Taxation, and a correspondent for Revista de Finanças Públicas e Direito Fiscal. She is a member of the International Fiscal Association, and the Tax Research Network.