Ingrid Detter de Frankopan

Early life

Ingrid Detter was born in Stockholm, Sweden. Her father was Nils Andreas Detter, a judge and jurist, and her mother, Thyra Caroline Hellberg Detter, a poet and author. She was educated at Lyceum, Stockholm and Mon Fertile, Switzerland, and later at the Universities of Oxford, Paris, Stockholm and Turin.

Career

Detter de Frankopan holds several academic degrees: D.Phil (Oxon), Jur. Kand, Jur. Lic, Jur. Dr. (Stockholm), Lic. en droit (Paris) and Dipl. Diritto Europeo (Turin).

After having completed a law degree at Stockholm University, Ingrid Detter was accepted to read for a doctorate at Oxford University. She completed this and achieved another doctorate in Law from Stockholm University as well as a Licence de droit at the University of Paris (what is now Paris I), as well as a Diploma in European Law at Turin University. She taught at Oxford University and became a Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall and of St. Antony's College, led the course on the International Legal Order at the London School of Economics, and was then, in 1987, by the Swedish Government appointed to the Lindhagen Chair of International Law at Stockholm University. For 25 years she was Adviser on International Law to Pope John Paul II.

In 1994, the competent Swedish governmental authority, Statens Ansvarsnämnd, after a long legal battle, charged her with 'disobedience' as she refused to accept that textbooks had to be approved by a political committee (linjenämnden). In connection to her following appeal to the Swedish Labour Court ("Arbetsdomstolen") and a Case in the European Court of Human Rights () concerning a complaint about restriction of academic freedom and of freedom of expression, an agreement was reached and the matter was settled amicably. She then withdrew her Case from the European Court of Human Rights (. She decided to leave her position at the end of 1995.

She is now a barrister at Lincoln's Inn in London.

Personal life

Ingrid Detter met her future husband, Louis Doimi de Lupis (who later controversially added the name of Frankopan and title of Prince, having previously adopted the title of Count; the Doimi de Lupis family were however granted nobility- in the form of knighthood only- by Emperor Franz Joseph I in 1855 and 1865), when they were both studying at Oxford University (see below on the history of the family name). They married in 1968.

They have five children:

Publications

Detter de Frankopan has published 14 books and numerous articles.

1. Law Making by International Organizations, Norstedt,1965;
2. Essays on the Law of Treaties, Sweet & Maxwell, 1967;
3. The East African Community and the Common Market, Longman,1970;
4. Finance and Protection of Investment in Developing Countries, Gower, 1987, 1st ed. 1974; 2nd ed., 1987;
5. International Law and the Independent State, Gower, 1987,1st ed. 1974; 2nd ed. 1987;
6. International Adoptions and the Conflict of Laws, Almqvist & Wiksell, 1976;
7. Bibliography of International Law, Bowker, 1975;
8. Ekonomisk Integrationsrätt, Almqvist & Wiksell, 1976;
9. The Concept of International Law, Norstedt, 1995, 1st ed., 1987; 2nd ed., 1995;
10. The Law of War, Cambridge University Press, 1st ed. 1987; 2nd ed. 2000;3rd ed. by Ashgate, 2013;
11. International Law for Students, Jagellonica, 1989;
12. International Law, Jagellonica, 1990;
13. International Legal Order, Gower, 1995;
14. Rani Hrvatski Kraljevi, ed. of MSS of Francis R. Preveden, and English translation as Croatian Early Kings, 1996.
15. The Suicide of Europe, Montesa, 2016;

and numerous articles; notes and reviews.