Faculty Bio
Adam Hirsch
Visiting Professor of Law
- PhD, 1987, Yale University
- JD, 1982, Yale University
- MPhil, 1982, Yale University
- MA, 1979, Yale University
- AB, 1976, Vassar College
Areas of Expertise
Professor Hirsch teaches and writes in the areas of wills and trusts, creditors' rights, and American legal history.
Professional Experience
Hirsch is the William & Catherine VanDercreek Professor of Law at Florida State University and is an academic fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. He is also currently serving a two-year term on the Florida Historical Commission.
Honors and Affiliations
Hirsch's doctoral dissertation received the George Washington Egleston Prize for the best dissertation in American history. The dissertation was expanded into a book, The Rise of the Penitentiary: Prisons and Punishment in Early America (Yale University Press, 1992). He has served as the Roger Traynor Fellow at Hastings College of Law.
Key Works
Hirsch's publications include "Inheritance: United States Law" in Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History (Katz, ed.) (Oxford Press, 2009); "The Code Breakers: How States are Modifying the UDPIA" in 46 Real Property Trust and Estate Law Journal 325 (2011); "Freedom of Testation/Freedom of Contract" in 95 Minnesota Law Review 2180 (2010); "Delaware Unifies the Law of Charitable and Noncharitable Purpose Trusts" in Estate Planning 13 (2009); "Disclaimer Law and UDPIA’s Unintended Consequences, Estate Planning 34 (April, 2009); and "Text and Time: A Theory of Testamentary Obsolescence" in 86 Washington University Law Review 609 (2009).
