David Hargraves Hodgson AO (born 1939) is a judge of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, the highest court in the State of New South Wales, Australia, which forms part of the Australian court hierarchy.
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Hodgson was educated at Sydney Grammar School. In 1962 he graduated with degrees in Arts and Law from the University of Sydney, the same year as fellow judges Murray Gleeson and Michael Kirby.[1]
Hodgson subsequently studied as a Rhodes Scholar, attaining a DPhil at the University of Oxford.[2] He was a student of H.L.A. Hart.[3]
In 1962 Hodgson served as associate to High Court judge Sir Victor Windeyer.[4] He was admitted to the bar in 1965, and was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1979.[2]
Hodgson was appointed as a Judge of the Supreme Court in 1983. He was Chief Judge in Equity from 1997–2001, and was appointed to the Court of Appeal in 2001.[2]
He has also served as a Commissioner of the New South Wales Law Reform Commission part-time,[5] and was assistant editor of the Australian Law Journal from 1969-76.[2]
Hodgson has written numerous philosophical articles, mainly dealing with issues in philosophy of the mind.[6] He writes primarily on the topics of free will and consciousness. Hodgson is the author of two books published by Oxford University Press, Consequences of Utilitarianism (1967) and The Mind Matters: Consciousness and Choice in a Quantum World (1991). The judge has also written on probability and plausible reasoning.