[4] Prior to his appointment, Hirschl published his first book titled Towards Juristocracy in 2004 through Harvard University Press, winner of the American Political Science Association (APSA) Law & Courts Section 2021 Lasting Contribution Award.
[7] As a Canada Research Chair, Hirschl published his second book on the topic of Constitutional theocracy which received the 2011 Mahoney Prize in Legal Theory from the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence in the Faculty of Law at the University of Sydney.
[8] Following this, he was awarded the Canada Council for the Arts' Killam Research Fellowship, which he planned to use towards completing his third book on the foundations and evolution of comparative constitutional studies.
His work has been translated into various languages (from French, Dutch and Spanish to Turkish, Hebrew and Mandarin), cited by jurists and in high court decisions worldwide, and addressed in leading media venues from the CBC, New York Times and Folha de São Paulo to Le Figaro, Deutsche Welle, and the Jerusalem Post.
[12] Hirschl was awarded the 2021 Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research for his book City, State: Constitutionalism and the Megacity.