Vince Buccola is Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School, where his teaching and research span the fields of corporate management and finance, with a special focus 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.