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Dr Nachshon (Sean) Goltz

Senior Lecturer

Staff Member Details
Telephone: +61 8 6304 3102
Email: n.goltz@ecu.edu.au
Campus: Joondalup  
Room: JO2.2318  
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9846-4713

Sean is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Business and Law. He is a member of SBL’s promotion committee, co-supervisor of Masters’ students, co-editor of Journal of Australasian Law Academics Association(JALAA) and supervisor of Honours students.

Key Research Areas

  • Regulation
  • Technology
  • Jewish Law

Biography

Before joining ECU, Sean practiced law in Israel and Canada and was a lecturer in Waikato University School of Law (New Zealand).

Sean’s research focuses on the intersection of law, technology and Jewish law. He teaches in the Law program at the School of Business and Law and the and the Cybersecurity program at the School of Science.

Sean is the co-author two books: The Imaginationless Generation (Brill, 2019) and Privacy Rights in the Global Digital Economy: Everyday Legal Problems and Canadian Paths to Justice (Irwin Law 2014); He published numerous academic articles and presented in conference around the world. He is a co-founding member of the IEEE task force on the ethical and social implications of computational intelligence and the former WA coordinator of the IEEE Society on Social implications of technology. He has contributed greatly towards conducting the Continuing Professional Development  Sessions for Law practitioners in Australia.

He was admitted to practice law in three jurisdictions namely, Western Australia, Canada (Ontario) and Israel.

Theme four: Securing Digital Futures; Artificial intelligence and autonomous systems, Critical Infrastructure, Cyber-enabled crime, Digital citizenship and human behaviour, Information Warfare and, Secure systems

  • 2020 - Innovative Teaching and Learning Practice Award.

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Canada, 2017.
  • Master of Laws, Israel, 2011.
  • Bachelor of Laws, Israel, 2008.
  • Bachelor of Arts, Israel, 2002.

Research Outputs

Books

Journal Articles

Journal Articles

  • Sinclair, D., Dowdeswell, T., Goltz, S. (2022). Artificially intelligent sex bots and female slavery: social science and Jewish legal and ethical perspectives. Information and Communications Technology Law, 2022(Article in Press), n/a. https://doi.org/10.1080/13600834.2022.2154050.

Journal Articles

  • Dowdeswell, T., Goltz, S. (2021). Cultural Regulation of Disruptive Technologies: Lessons from Orthodox Religious Communities. Journal of Transportation Law, Logistics and Policy, 88(1), 33-44. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ecuworkspost2013/11505.
  • Geraci, R., Goltz, S. (2021). Oriented to Human Autonomy Indian Ethics, Artificial Intelligence, and Driverless Vehicles. Journal of Transportation Law, Logistics and Policy, 88(1), 25-32. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ecuworkspost2013/11506.

Conference Publications

  • Goltz, S., Dowdeswell, T. (2021). ‘The Law of the Dog’ – Emotion and Motivation in Teaching Children About New Media. 2021 IEEE Conference on Norbert Wiener in the 21st Century (21CW) (5 pages). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/21CW48944.2021.9532530.

Journal Articles

  • Goltz, S., Zeleznikow, J., Dowdeswell, T. (2020). From the Tree of Knowledge and the Golem of Prague to Kosher Autonomous Cars: The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence Through Jewish Eyes. Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, 9(1), 132–156. https://doi.org/10.1093/ojlr/rwaa015.
  • Goltz, S., Leigh Dowdeswell, T. (2020). The clash of empires: regulating technological threats to civil society. Information and Communications Technology Law, 29(2), 194-217. https://doi.org/10.1080/13600834.2020.1735060.

Conference Publications

  • Crockett, K., Garratt, M., Latham, A., Coyler, E., Goltz, S. (2020). Risk and Trust Perceptions of the Public of Artificial Intelligence Applications. 2020 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) (5-15). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/IJCNN48605.2020.9207654.

Books

Journal Articles

Conference Publications

  • Crockett, K., Goltz, S., Garratt, M., Latham, A. (2019). Trust in Computational Intelligence Systems: A Case study in Public Perceptions. 2019 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2019 - Proceedings (3227-3234). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/CEC.2019.8790147.
  • Latham, A., Goltz, S. (2019). A Survey of the General Public’s Views on the Ethics of using Artificial Intelligence in Education. Artificial Intelligence in Education: 20th International Conference, AIED 2019, Chicago, IL, USA, June 25-29, 2019, Proceedings (194-206). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23204-7_17.

Journal Articles

  • Gibbons, T., Lewis, M., Goltz, S. (2018). Partial Takings. New Zealand Law Journal, 2018(March), 44-68.
  • Goltz, S., Dondoli, G. (2018). Gaming the Law: Adolescents and the Harmful Digital Communication Act - Employing an Educational Approach. SMU Science and Technology Law Review, XXI(1), 3-19. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ecuworkspost2013/6400.

Conference Publications

  • Crockett, K., Goltz, S., Garratt, M. (2018). GDPR Impact on Computational Intelligence Research. 2018 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) (Article number 8489614). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/IJCNN.2018.8489614.

Journal Articles

  • Goltz, S., Purves-Smith, M. (2017). Compensation and extraordinary circumstances in aviation delays. New Zealand Law Journal, 2017(March 2017), 60-66.

Conference Publications

  • Goltz, S. (2017). Linked Democracy 3.0 - Global Machine Translated Legislation and Compliance in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Proceedings of the Workshop on Linked Democracy: Artificial Intelligence for Democratic Innovation co-located with the 26th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2017) (98-105). International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
  • Mayo, M., Goltz, S. (2017). Constructing Document Vectors Using Kernel Density Estimates. Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence (183-194). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67422-3_16.

Book Chapters

  • Goltz, S., Dowdeswell, T. (2016). Children’s Storytelling in Virtual Worlds: A Critique. Storytelling and Education in the Digital Age: experiences and criticisms (31-57). Peter Lang Publishing.

Journal Articles

  • Goltz, S., Bogdanov, E. (2016). Lessons From Washington and Colorado: The Potential Financial Gains of Recreational Marijuana to Canada. Canada - United States Law Journal, 40(1), 126-139.

Journal Articles

  • Goltz, S., Nikolic, A. (2013). Global-Regulation: Drawing Future Regulatory Tools from the Experience of the Past. European Journal of Risk Regulation, 4(3), 391-398. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1867299X00002695.

Research Projects

  • Cyber Security in Australia: an economic or national security concern?, Cyber Security Research Centre Ltd, Cyber Security Research Centre Masters Scholarship, 2021 ‑ 2023, $70,000.

Research Student Supervision

No data available

Associate Supervisor

  • Master of Laws (Research), Comparing Western Australia and South Australia Public High School's Cyberbullying Policies - Is there a need for a legislative change
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