David Hodgson (judge)
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David Hargraves Hodgson 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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[edit] Education
Justice Hodgson was educated at Sydney Grammar School.[1] 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.[2] Hodgson subsequently studied at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar.[3]
[edit] Judicial activity
Justice 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. He has also served as a Commissioner of the New South Wales Law Reform Commission part-time.[4]
[edit] Publications
Justice Hodgson has written numerous philosophical articles, mainly dealing with issues in philosophy of the mind. 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 also takes a scholarly interest in pure mathematics.
