Education
Ph.D. (History), Yale University, 1987
J.D., Yale Law School, 1982
M. Phil. (History), 1982
M.A. (History), 1979
A.B., Vassar College, 1976

A leading authority on wills and trusts, Professor Hirsch teaches Bankruptcy Policy Seminar, Creditor's Rights, Estate Planning, Gratuitous Transfers and American Legal History. He has served as the Roger Traynor Fellow at Hastings College of Law, and he is an Academic Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel.

In addition to his legal training, Professor Hirsch holds a Ph.D. in History from Yale University, where his doctoral dissertation received the George Washington Egleston Prize for the best dissertation in American history. He expanded this work into a book, The Rise of the Penitentiary: Prisons & Punishment in Early America (Yale University Press, 1992).