Adam J. Hirsch

Publications

• Beyond Privity of Blood: Intestacy and Charity
  76 UC L.J. 353 (2025) · UC Law Journal · 2025
• When Beneficiaries Predecease: An Empirical Analysis
  72 EMORY L.J. 307 (2022) · Emory Law Journal · 2022

• Testation and the Mind
  74 WASH. & LEE L. REV. 285 (2017) · Washington and Lee Law Review · 2017
• Teaching Wills and Trusts: The Jurisdictional Problem
  58 ST. LOUIS U. L.J. (2014) · Saint Louis University Law Journal · 2014
• Disclaimers and Federalism
  67 VAND. L. REV. 1871 (2014) · Vanderbilt Law Review · 2014
• Formalizing Gratuitous And Contractual Transfers: A Situational Theory
  91 WASH. U. L. REV. 797 (2014) · Washington University Law Review · 2014
• Incomplete Wills
  111 MICH. L. REV. 1423 (2013) · Michigan Law Review · 2013
• Freedom of Testation / Freedom of Contract
  95 MINN. L. REV. 2180 (2011) · Minnesota Law Review · 2011

• Text and Time: A Theory of Testamentary Obsolescence
  86 WASH. U. L. REV. 609 (2009) · Washington University Law Review · 2009
• Fear Not the Asset Protection Trust
  27 CARDOZO L. REV. 2685 (2006) · Cardozo Law Review · 2006
• Evolutionary Theories of Common Law Efficiency: Reasons for (Cognitive) Skepticism
  32 FLA. ST. U. L. REV. (2005) · Florida State University Law Review · 2005
• Default Rules in Inheritance Law: A Problem in Search of Its Context
  73 FORDHAM L. REV. 1031 (2004) · Fordham Law Review · 2004
• Revisions in Need of Revising: The Uniform Disclaimer of Property Interests Act
  29 FLA. ST. U. L. REV. (2001) · Florida State University Law Review · 2001

• Trusts for Purposes: Policy, Ambiguity, and Anomaly in the Uniform Laws
  26 FLA. ST. U. L. REV. 913 (1999) · Florida State University Law Review · 1999
• Bequests for Purposes: A Unified Theory
  56 WASH. & LEE L. REV. 33 (1999) · Washington and Lee Law Review · 1999
• Searching inside Justice Holmes
  82 VA. L. REV. 385 (1996) · Virginia Law Review · 1996
• Spendthrift Trusts and Public Policy: Economic and Cognitive Perspectives
  73 WASH. U. L. REV. (1995) · Washington University Law Review · 1995
• Inheritance and Bankruptcy: The Meaning of the "Fresh Start"
  45 UC L.J. 175 (1994) · UC Law Journal · 1994
• Qualitative Theory of the Dead Hand
  68 IND. L.J. (1992) · Indiana Law Journal · 1992

• Problem of the Insolvent Heir
  74 CORNELL L. REV. 587 (1989) · Cornell Law Review · 1989
• From Pillory to Penitentiary: The Rise of Criminal Incarceration in Early Massachusetts
  80 MICH. L. REV. 1179 (1982) · Michigan Law Review · 1982