Dr Meda CouzensLecturer, Western Sydney University, AustraliaEmail: m.couzens@westernsydney.edu.auProfileExpertiseProfileMeda is a children's rights academic with a diverse professional experience. She studied and practiced law in Romania, and then worked as a legal academic in South Africa and subsequently Australia. Her work includes research on intercountry adoptions, child participation, best interests of the child, FGM, constitutional children's rights and ISIS-associated children. Meda's work in the last few years has focused on the application of the CRC by domestic courts. ResearchExpertiseChildren's rights