Abbreviations
- ACHPR
African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights
- ADA
Anti-dumping Agreement
- AIDI
Annuaire de l’Institut de Droit International
- AJCL
American Journal of Comparative Law
- AJIL
American Journal of International Law
- AL
letter of allegation
- API
Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I) of 8 June 1977
- APII
Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts (Protocol II) of 8 June 1977
- APIII
Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Adoption of an Additional Distinctive Emblem (Protocol III) of 8 December 2005
- ARSIWA
Articles on Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts
- Art(s)
Article(s)
- ASIL Proc
American Society of International Law Proceedings of the Annual Meeting
- ASIL
American Society of International Law
- Aust ILJ
Australian International Law Journal
- Aust YBIL
Australian Yearbook of International Law
- BBNJ Agreement
Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction
- BIT
Bilateral Investment Treaty
- BYBIL
British Yearbook of International Law
- CAN
Climate Action Network
- CasWResJIntL
Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law
- CBD
Convention on Biological Diversity
- CDDH
Steering Committee for Human Rights
- CEDAW
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
- CERD
Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
- CESCR
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- CESCR
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- CETA
Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement
- cf
confer
- ch
chapter
- Ch(s)
chapter(s)
- Chinese JIL
Chinese Journal of International Law
- CIL
Customary International Law
- cir
circuit
- CITES
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
- CJEU/ECJ
Court of Justice of the European Union
- ColJTransnatlL
Columbia Journal of Transnational Law
- Cornell IntlLJ
Cornell International Law Journal
- DePaul LR
DePaul law Review
- e.g.
exempli gratia
- ECHR
European Convention on Human Rights
- ECLI
European Case-Law Identifier
- ECLR
European Constitutional Law Review
- ECR
European Court Reports
- ECtHR
European Court of Human Rights
- ed(s)
editor(s)
- edn
edition
- EFTA
European Free Trade Association
- EIA
Environmental Impact Assessment
- EJIL
European Journal of International Law
- Emory IntlLRev
Emory International Law Review
- EP&L
Environmental Policy and Law
- ESIL
European Society of International Law
- esp
especially
- FAO
Food and Agriculture Organisation
- FDI
Foreign Direct Investment
- FET
Fair and Equitable Treatment
- ff
and the following
- Fordham IntlLJ
Fordham International Law Journal
- FYBIL
Finnish Yearbook of International Law
- FYROM
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
- GATT
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
- GC
Grand Chamber
- GCI
Geneva Convention (I) for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field of 12 August 1949
- GCII
Geneva Convention (II) for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea of 12 August 1949
- GCIII
Geneva Convention (III) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War of 12 August 1949
- GCIV
Geneva Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilians in Time of War of 12 August 1949
- GCRF
Global Challenges Research Fund
- Geo LJ
Georgia Law Journal
- GPL
General Principles of Law Originating from Domestic Legal Orders
- GroJIL
Groningen Journal of International Law
- HarvILJ
Harvard International Law Journal
- HE
His/Her Excellency
- HHRJ
Harvard Human Rights Journal
- HILJ
Harvard International law Journal
- HLR
Harvard Law Review
- Houston JIntlL
Houston Journal of International Law
- HRBs
Human Rights Bodies
- HRC
Human Rights Council
- HRCtee
Human Rights Committee
- HRLJ
Human Rights Law Journal
- HRLR
Human Rights Law Review
- HS
Harmonised System
- i.e.
id est
- IACtHR
Inter-american Court of Human Rights
- Ibid
Ibidem
- ICC
International Criminal Court
- ICCPR
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- ICES
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
- ICESCR
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- ICISS
International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty
- ICJ
International Court of Justice
- ICJ Rep
International Court of Justice Reports
- ICLQ
International & Comparative Law Quarterly
- ICLR
International Community Law Review
- ICRC
International Committee of the Red Cross
- ICSID
International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes
- ICTR
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
- ICTY
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
- IEL
International Environmental Law
- IHL
International Humanitarian Law
- IHRL
International Human Rights Law
- IIA(s)
International Investment Agreement(s)
- IJGLS
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
- IJHR
International Journal of Human Rights
- IJMCL
International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law
- ILA
International Law Association
- ILARC
International Law Association Conference Reports
- ILC
International Law Commission
- ILM
International Legal Materials
- ILR
International Law Reports
- ILS
International Law Studies
- IMFTE Charter
Charter of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East
- IMLI
International Maritime Law Institute
- IMT Charter
Charter of the International Military Tribunal at Nürnberg
- IMT(s)
International Military Tribunal(s)
- IOLR
International Organizations Law Review
- IOs
International Organisations
- IPBES
Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
- IPCC
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- IRRC
International Review of the Red Cross
- ISAF
International Security Assistance Force
- IsraelLR
Israel Law Review
- ITLOS Rep
International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea Reports
- ITLOS
International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea
- IYBIL
Italian Yearbook of International Law
- JCSL
Journal of Conflict and Security Law
- JEL
Journal of Environmental Law
- JHRE
Journal of Human Rights and the Environment
- JHRP
Journal of Human Rights Practice
- JICJ
Journal of International Criminal Justice
- JIDS
Journal of International Dispute Settlement
- JIntArb
Journal of International Arbitration
- JIS
Journal of International Studies
- JWT
Journal of World Trade
- JYBIL
Japanese Yearbook of International Law
- LDCs
Least Developed Countries
- LJIL
Leiden Journal of International Law
- LNTS
League of Nations Treaty Series
- LOSC
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
- LPICT
Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals
- LSI
Law and Social Inquiry
- MARPOL
International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships
- MEAs
Multilateral Environment Agreement(s)
- MFN
most-favored-nation
- MichJIntlL
Michigan Journal of International Law
- MINUSMA
United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali
- MJIL
Melbourne Journal of International Law
- MLLWR
Military Law and the Law of War Review
- MPEiPro
Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law
- MPEPIL
Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law
- MPYBUNL
Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law
- NCLR
New Criminal Law Review
- NGO(s)
Non-governmental Organisation(s)
- NIEO
New International Economic Order
- NILR
Netherlands International Law Review
- NJCM
Nederlands Juristen Comité voor de Mensen-rechten
- NJIL
Nordic Journal of International Law
- No
number
- Notre Dame LRev
Notre Dame Law Review
- NQHR
Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights
- NYBIL
Netherlands Yearbook of International Law
- OECD
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
- OHCHR
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
- OJLS
Oxford Journal of Legal Studies
- PCA
Permanent Court of Arbitration
- PCIJ
Permanent Court of International Justice
- POW
prisoner of war
- PYBIL
Polish Yearbook of International Law
- QIL
Questions of International Law
- RdC
Recueil des Cours de l’Académie de Droit International
- RECIEL
Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law
- RIAA
Reports of International Arbitral Awards
- RTA(s)
Regional Trade Agreement(s)
- SCC
Stockholm Chamber of Commerce
- SCM Agreements
Subsidies and Countervailing Measures Agreements
- SCSL
Special Court for Sierra Leone
- SDGs
Sustainable Development Goals
- SingLR
Singapore Law Review
- SPS Agreement
Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures
- Stanford EnvtlLJ
Stanford Environmental Law Journal
- STLP
Studies in Transnational Legal Policy
- TBT
Technical Barriers to Trade
- TED(s)
Turtle Excluder Device(s)
- TEL
Transnational Environmental Law
- TEU
Treaty on the European Union
- TFEU
Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union
- TIAS
Treaties and Other International Acts Series
- tr
translation
- TRIMS
Trade Related Investment Measures
- TWQ
Third World Quarterly
- UA
Urgent Appeal
- UK
United Kingdom
- UKRI
UK Research and Innovation
- UN
United Nations
- UNCTAD
UN Trade and Development
- UNEP
United Nations Environmental Programme
- UNFCCC
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
- UNFSA
UN Fish Stocks Agreement
- UNGA
United Nations General Assembly
- UNHCR
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Uniform LR
Uniform Law Review
- UNSC
United Nations Security Council
- UNTBs
United Nations Human Rights Treaty Monitoring Bodies
- UNTS
United Nations Treaty Serries
- US/USA
United States of America
- v
versus
- VCLT
Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties
- VJIL
Virginia Journal of International Law
- WashUGlobalStudLRev
Washington University Global Studies Law Review
- WGAD
UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- WHO
World Health Organisation
- WTO
World Trade Organization
- YaleJIntlL
Yale Journal of International Law
- YBIEL
Yearbook of International Environmental Law
- YBILC
Yearbook of the International Law Commission
- ZaöRV
Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht – Heidelberg Journal of International Law
- ZöR
Zeitschrift für öffentliches Recht – Austrian Journal of Public Law