Academic Faculty
Full Time Teaching Faculty
Vincent Buccola
Professor of LawBiography
Vince Buccola is a Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School, where he teaches courses spanning the fields of corporate management and finance. His research focuses especially on the law of leveraged finance, distress, restructuring, and bankruptcy.
Buccola received a BA from Wesleyan University and a JD from the University of Chicago. After law school, he clerked for Judge Frank H. Easterbrook of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and practiced as a trial lawyer at Bartlit Beck. He began his academic career as a Bigelow Fellow and then spent a decade on the faculty of the Wharton School before returning to Hyde Park.
Education
University of Chicago Law School
JD, with High Honors (2008)
Wesleyan University
BA, with High Honors in History (2003)
Thesis: “Religious Solitude in Medieval England”
Experience
University of Chicago Law School
Professor of Law (2024–)
Visiting Associate Professor of Law (2023)
Bigelow Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in Law (2012-2014)
NYU School of Law
Visiting Professor of Law (2024)
The Wharton School | University of Pennsylvania
Associate Professor of Legal Studies & Business Ethics (2021-2024)
Lecturer in Law, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School (2022)
Assistant Professor of Legal Studies & Business Ethics (2014-2021)