Mary Stokes

Mary Stokes is a Senior Fellow at the LSE Law School and teaches part-time on the LL203 Law of Business Associations course. She retired from the Chancery Bar in 2022 after 30 years of practice, specializing in company law, insolvency, and financial services litigation. She previously practised at Erskine Chambers, the UK's leading company law set, and held a 6-year appointment as a Fellow and Tutor in Law at Brasenose College, Oxford.

Education

• BA in Jurisprudence, Brasenose College, Oxford
• BCL (Vinerian Scholarship recipient), University of Oxford
• LLM, Harvard Law School (John F Kennedy Scholarship)

Research Expertise focuses on corporate law frameworks, restructuring processes, and financial regulation. Her recent work involved high-profile banking and insurance business transfer schemes. She has contributed to major legal publications including Buckley on the Companies Acts and From Counsel's online company law service.

Awards

• Top First Class Honours in BCL (Vinerian Scholarship)
• John F Kennedy Scholarship for Harvard LLM

Professional Contributions includes editorial work for Butterworths Company Law cases and academic exchanges at Boston University Law School during Oxford sabbatical.