Ingrid Detter de Frankopan
Swedish scholar of international law
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Thyra Ingrid Hildegard Detter de Frankopan (born 1936)[1] is a Swedish scholar of international law, Lindhagen Professor Emerita at Stockholm University, a practising barrister, and the author of multiple books.
Education and career
Detter earned a doctorate in 1962 from the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford; her dissertation was titled, Treaty-making power of international organisations.[2] She completed another doctorate in 1965 from Stockholm University; her dissertation was Law Making by International Organizations.[3][4] As of 1988, she was Carl Lindhagen Professor of International Law at Stockholm University, and also held an affiliation with the London School of Economics.[5]
She was called to the bar in 1977 and is a member of the Three Stone commercial chancery chambers in Lincoln's Inn.[6]
Books
Detter's books include:
- Law Making by International Organizations (Norstedt, 1965)[4]
- Essays on the Law of Treaties (Norstedt, 1967)[7]
- The East African Community and Common Market (Longmans, 1970)[8]
- Finance and Protection of Investments in Developing Countries (Gower, 1974; 2nd ed., 1987)[9]
- International Law and the Independent State (Gower, 1974; 2nd ed., 1988)[10]
- International Adoptions and the Conflict of Laws (Almqvist & Wiksell, 1975)[11]
- Bibliography of International Law (Bowker, 1975)[12]
- The Concept of International Law (Norstedt, 1987; 2nd ed., 1995)[13]
- The Law of War (Cambridge University Press, 1988; 3rd ed., 2017)[14]
- The International Legal Order (Dartmouth Publishing, 1994)[15]
Personal life
Detter married Louis Doimi de Lupis, a Croatian man who later called himself Louis Doimi de Frankopan. Their daughter Paola married Lord Nicholas Windsor of the British royal family, becoming Lady Nicholas Windsor,[16] and their son Peter Frankopan, a historian and hotelier, married Sainsbury heiress Jessica Sainsbury.[17]