Alfonso Nocilla is a tenured Associate Professor and the Catalyst Capital Fellow in Insolvency Law at Western.  He has broad interests in commercial law, with particular emphasis on Canadian and cross-border bankruptcy, insolvency and restructuring.  His research is methodologically diverse, incorporating comparative and empirical approaches, and has been cited favourably by courts at all levels across Canada, including the Supreme Court of Canada.

He is a co-editor of Canadian Bankruptcy and Insolvency Law, 2^nd Edition, 2024 CanLIIDocs 2210, the first open access casebook on Canadian bankruptcy law.  He is also a co-editor of the Journal of the Insolvency Institute of Canada, a member of the editorial advisory boards of the Canadian Business Law Journal and the Annual Review of Insolvency Law, and an Affiliated Researcher with the Desautels Centre for Private Enterprise and the Law.  He has consulted on commercial and/or insolvency law matters for the Canadian government, professional associations, and private parties.  He has been interviewed by CTV News, CBC Radio One, The Globe and Mail, and Law360 Canada, among other media, regarding significant insolvency and restructuring cases.

Prior to joining Western, Alfonso was a Research Fellow at the University of Florence for the E.U.-funded project “Contractualised Distress Resolution in the Shadow of the Law”, which informed the 2019 European Restructuring Directive.  He received his Ph.D. in corporate insolvency law from UCL in 2019, supported by a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship.

Alfonso will be a Western Massey Fellow and Visiting Scholar at Massey College while on sabbatical in 2025-2026.