The USD School of Law faculty publishes regularly in some of the nation's top academic journals. Check out featured scholarship from some of the most distinguished scholars in their respective fields.
Hirsch, Adam
Books
- California Probate Code Annotated (Thomson West 2026) (with McGovern)
- California Probate Code Annotated (Thomson Reuters 2022) (with McGovern)
- The Rise of the Penitentiary: Prisons and Punishment in Early America (Yale University Press 1992)
Journal Articles
- Beyond Privity of Blood: Intestacy and Charity, 76 UC Law Journal 353 (2025)
- A Battle of Wills: The Uniform Probate Code versus Empirical Evidence, 33 Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal 277 (2023)
- When Beneficiaries Predecease: An Empirical Analysis, 72 Emory Law Journal 307 (2022)
- Models of Electronic-Will Legislation, 56 Real Property Trust and Estate Law Journal 163 (2021)
- Electronic-Will Legislation: The Uniform Act versus Australian and Canadian Alternatives, 34 Property & Probate 42 (2020) (with Kelety)
- Introduction, Symposium: Empirical Analysis of Wealth Transfer Law, 53 UC Davis Law Review 2083 (2020)
- Technology Adrift: In Search of a Role for Electronic Wills, 61 Boston College Law Review 827 (2020)
- Waking the Dead: An Empirical Analysis of Revival of Wills, 53 UC Davis Law Review 2269 (2020)
- Defective Catastrophe Clauses in Wills: Paths to Reform, 52 Real Property Trust and Estate Law Journal 339 (2018)
- Inheritance on the Fringes of Marriage, 2018 University of Illinois Law Review 156 (2018)
- Testation and the Mind, 74 (2017)
- Gulliver and Tilson: 'The Classification of Gratuitous Transfers'--A Belated Review, 35 University of Queensland Law Journal 127 (2016)
- Airbrushed Heirs: The Problem of Children Omitted from Wills, 50 Real Property Trust and Estate Law Journal 91 (2015)
- Disclaimers and Federalism, 67 Vanderbilt Law Review 1871 (2014)
- Formalizing Gratuitous and Contractual Transfers: A Situational Theory, 91 Washington University at St. Louis Law Review 797 (2014)
- Teaching Wills and Trusts: The Jurisdictional Problem, 58 St. Louis University Law Journal 681 (2014)
- Incomplete Wills, 111 Michigan Law Review 1423 (2013)
- Freedom of Testation/Freedom of Contract, 95 Minnesota Law Review 2180 (2011)
- The Code Breakers: How States are Modifying the UDPIA, 46 Real Property Trust and Estate Law Journal 325 (2011)
- Delaware Unifies the Law of Charitable and Noncharitable Purpose Trusts, 36 Estate Planning 13 (2009)
- Disclaimer Law and UDPIA's Unintended Consequences, 36 Estate Planning 34 (2009)
- Text and Time: A Theory of Testamentary Obsolescence, 86 Washington University Law Review 609 (2009)
- Law and Proximity, 2008 University of Illinois Law Review 557 (2008) (with Mitchell)
- The Uniform Acts' Loophole in Fraudulent Conveyance Law, 34 Estate Planning 20 (2007)
- Disclaimer Reform and UDPIA: The Disappointing Amendments of 2006, 33 Estate Planning 24 (2006) (with Gans)
- Fear Not the Asset Protection Trust, 27 Cardozo Law Review 2685 (2006)
- Comment: Evolutionary Theories of Common Law Efficiency: Reasons for (Cognitive) Skepticism, 32 Florida State University Law Review 425 (2005)
- Disclaimer Reform: New Developments and Additional Reflections, 32 Estate Planning 16 (2005) (with Gans)
- Default Rules in Inheritance Law: A Problem in Search of Its Context, 73 Fordham Law Review 1031 (2004)
- Perfecting Disclaimer Reform: Suggestions for a Revised Uniform Act, 31 Estate Planning 185 (2004) (with Gans)
- Cognitive Jurisprudence, 76 Southern California Law Review 1331 (2003)
- Lawmaking and Bounded Rationality, SSRN (2002)
- Revisions in Need of Revising: The Uniform Disclaimer of Property Interests Act, 29 Florida State University Law Review 109 (2001)
- The Uniform Disclaimer of Property Interests Act: Opportunities and Pitfalls, 28 Estate Planning 571 (2001)
- Inheritance Law, Legal Contraptions, and the Problem of Doctrinal Change, 79 Oregon Law Review 527 (2000)
- Bequests for Purposes: A Unified Theory, 56 Washington and Lee Law Review 33 (1999)
- Trusts for Purposes: Policy, Ambiguity, and Anomaly in the Uniform Laws, 26 Florida State University Law Review 913 (1999)
- Inheritance and Inconsistency, 57 Ohio State Law Journal 1057 (1996)
- Spendthrift Trusts and Public Policy: Economic and Cognitive Perspectives, 73 Washington Law Review 1 (1995)
- Inheritance and Bankruptcy: The Meaning of the 'Fresh Start', 45 Hastings Law Journal 175 (1994)
- A Qualitative Theory of the Dead Hand, 68 Indiana Law Journal 1 (1992) (with Wang)
- The Problem of the Insolvent Heir, 74 Cornell Law Review 587 (1989)
- The Collision of Military Cultures in Seventeenth-Century New England, 74 The Journal of American History 1187 (1988)
- From Pillory to Penitentiary: The Rise of Criminal Incarceration in Early Massachusetts, 80 Michigan Law Review 1179 (1982)
Chapters of Books or Articles within Books
- American History of Inheritance Law, in Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History (Stanley Katz ed., Oxford University Press 2009)
- From Pillory to Penitentiary: The Rise of Criminal Incarceration in Early Massachusetts, in Crime and Justice in American History (Information Today, Inc. 1990)
- The Collision of Military Cultures in Seventeenth-Century New England, in Essays in North American Indian History (Kendall Hunt Publishing 1990)