Mary Stokes (Academic Associate)

Mary Stokes is an Academic Associate of Chambers. She is a Visiting Professor in Practice and a Senior Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science’s Law School. She teaches part-time on the Law School’s company law course for undergraduates.

Mary practised at Chambers for 30 years until her retirement in 2022. Prior to joining Chambers, Mary spent 6 years as a Fellow and Tutor in Law at Brasenose College, Oxford, where she had obtained her BA in Jurisprudence and the BCL (for which she was awarded the Vinerian Scholarship for the top First). When she was younger Mary also spent some time in the US, doing an LLM at Harvard Law School (with a John F Kennedy scholarship) and then, a few years later, teaching a corporate law course at Boston University Law School, whilst on sabbatical leave from Oxford.

Mary has joined Professors Paul Davies and Dame Sarah Worthington as one of the authors of the forthcoming 12th edition of Gower, Principles of Modern Company Law. Previously Mary was a contributor to Buckley on the Companies Acts and an assistant editor of Butterworths Company Law cases.