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.