| The rise of the penitentiary: Prisons and punishment in early America AJ Hirsch Yale University Press, 1992 | 351 | 1992 |
| A qualitative theory of the dead hand AJ Hirsch, WKS Wang Ind. LJ 68, 1, 1992 | 275 | 1992 |
| Default rules in inheritance law: a problem in serach of its context AJ Hirsch Fordham L. Rev. 73, 1031, 2004 | 191 | 2004 |
| Spendthrift trusts and public policy: Economic and cognitive perspectives AJ Hirsch Wash. ULQ 73, 1, 1995 | 155 | 1995 |
| The collision of military cultures in seventeenth-century New England AJ Hirsch The Military-State-Society Symbiosis, 97-122, 2013 | 150* | 2013 |
| Inheritance and Inconsistency AJ Hirsch Ohio St. LJ 57, 1057, 1996 | 121 | 1996 |
| Problem of the Insolvent Heir AJ Hirsch Cornell L. Rev. 74, 587, 1988 | 111 | 1988 |
| From pillory to penitentiary: The rise of criminal incarceration in early Massachusetts AJ Hirsch Michigan Law Review 80 (6), 1179-1269, 1982 | 110 | 1982 |
| Freedom of Testation/Freedom of Contract AJ Hirsch Minn. L. Rev. 95, 2180, 2010 | 100 | 2010 |
| Bequests for Purposes: A Unified Theory AJ Hirsch Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 56, 33, 1999 | 92 | 1999 |
| Text and Time: A Theory of Testamentary Obsolescence AJ Hirsch Wash. UL Rev. 86, 609, 2008 | 87 | 2008 |
| Inheritance and Bankruptcy: The Meaning of the Fresh Start AJ Hirsch Hastings LJ 45, 175, 1993 | 70 | 1993 |
| Fear Not the Assest Protection Trust AJ Hirsch Cardozo L. Rev. 27, 2685, 2005 | 64 | 2005 |
| Cognitive jurisprudence AJ Hirsch S. Cal. L. Rev. 76, 1331, 2002 | 57 | 2002 |
| Formalizing gratuitous and contractual transfers: a situational theory AJ Hirsch Wash. UL Rev. 91, 797, 2013 | 56 | 2013 |
| Trusts for Purposes: Policy, Ambiguity, and Anomaly in the Uniform Laws AJ Hirsch Fla. St. UL Rev. 26, 913, 1998 | 56 | 1998 |
| Evolutionary theories of common law efficiency: reasons for (cognitive) skepticism AJ Hirsch Fla. St. UL Rev. 32, 425, 2004 | 50 | 2004 |
| Inheritance Law, Legal Contraptions, and the Problem of Doctrinal Change AJ Hirsch Or. L. Rev. 79, 527, 2000 | 49 | 2000 |
| Incomplete Wills AJ Hirsch Mich. L. Rev. 111, 1423, 2012 | 46 | 2012 |
| Testation and the Mind AJ Hirsch Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 74, 285, 2017 | 43 | 2017 |
