Dr. Eugenio Vaccari is Senior Lecturer in Law at the Department of Law and Criminology at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. Dr. Vaccari joined Royal Holloway, University of London in 2021. He was promoted to Senior Lecturer in law in 2022. He is currently the “Law with” UG Programme Lead. He also worked at the University of Essex as a lecturer in company and insolvency law.

Dr. Vaccari is a qualified Italian lawyer specialized in corporate insolvency and bankruptcy law. He is an active member of several leading institutions, including III NextGen Class XI, INSOL International, INSOL Europe and the Insolvency Lawyers’ Association (UK). He is chair of INSOL ERA and a member of the board of YANIL. He is co-editor of the INSOL Europe Academic Forum Conference Proceedings, member of the editorial board of INSOL i-Read, and he is a peer-reviewer for some leading academic research journals. In his career, Dr. Vaccari has received several awards and prizes, including the silver prize for the 2022 competition in International Insolvency Studies organised by the International Insolvency Institute.

His main areas of interest are the theoretical and conceptual underpinnings of corporate insolvency law and abusive practices in insolvency, particularly in relation to the use of ipso facto clauses and the treatment of local public entities in distress. He has also co-ordinated some funded projects on student debts and discrimination in access to bankruptcy procedures by members of ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities at the local Legal Advice Centre.