Thyra Ingrid Hildegard Detter de Frankopan (born 1936) is a Swedish scholar of

international law International law (also known as public international law and the law of nations) is the set of rules, norms, and standards generally recognized as binding between states. It establishes normative guidelines and a common conceptual framework for ...

, Lindhagen Professor Emerita at

Stockholm University Stockholm University ( sv, Stockholms universitet) is a public research university in Stockholm, Sweden, founded as a college in 1878, with university status since 1960. With over 33,000 students at four different faculties: law, humanities, so ...

, a practising

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, and the author of multiple books.

Education and career

Detter earned a doctorate in 1962 from the

Faculty of Law, University of Oxford The University of Oxford Faculty of Law is the law school of the University of Oxford. It has a history of over 800 years in the teaching and learning of law. Oxford's law school is currently ranked fourth in the world in the 2023Times Higher ...

; her dissertation was ''Treaty-making power of international organisations''. She completed another doctorate in 1965 from

; her dissertation was ''Law Making by International Organizations''. 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 , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 millio ...

. She was

called to the bar The call to the bar is a legal term of art in most common law jurisdictions where persons must be qualified to be allowed to argue in court on behalf of another party and are then said to have been "called to the bar" or to have received "call to ...

in 1977 and is a member of the Three Stone commercial chancery chambers in

Lincoln's Inn The Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn is one of the four Inns of Court in London to which barristers of England and Wales belong and where they are called to the Bar. (The other three are Middle Temple, Inner Temple and Gray's Inn.) Lincoln ...

Books

Detter's books include: *''Law Making by International Organizations'' (Norstedt, 1965) *''Essays on the Law of Treaties'' (Norstedt, 1967) *''The East African Community and Common Market'' (Longmans, 1970) *''Finance and Protection of Investments in Developing Countries'' (Gower, 1974; 2nd ed., 1987) *''International Law and the Independent State'' (Gower, 1974; 2nd ed., 1988) *''International Adoptions and the Conflict of Laws'' (Almqvist & Wiksell, 1975) *''Bibliography of International Law'' (Bowker, 1975) *''The Concept of International Law'' (Norstedt, 1987; 2nd ed., 1995) *''The Law of War'' (Cambridge University Press, 1988; 3rd ed., 2017) *''The International Legal Order'' (Dartmouth Publishing, 1994)

Personal life

Detter married Louis Doimi de Lupis, a Croatian man who later called himself Louis Doimi de

Frankopan The House of Frankopan ( hr, Frankopani, Frankapani, it, Frangipani, hu, Frangepán, la, Frangepanus, Francopanus), was a Croatian noble family, whose members were among the great landowner magnates and high officers of the Kingdom of Croati ...

. Their daughter Paola married

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of the British Royal Family, becoming

Lady Nicholas Windsor Lady Nicholas Windsor (born Paola Louise Marica Doimi de Lupis, 7 August 1969) is the wife of Lord Nicholas Windsor, son of the Duke and Duchess of Kent. Early life Lady Nicholas Windsor was born as Paola Louise Marica Doimi de Lupis. She used ...

, and their son

Peter Frankopan Peter Frankopan (born 22 March 1971) is a British historian, writer, and hotelier. Early life and education Frankopan is the second of five children born to Yugoslav-born Croatian Louis Doimi de Frankopan (1939–2018) and Swedish-born barris ...

, a historian and hotelier, married Sainsbury heiress Jessica Sainsbury.

References

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