| abgb | Allgemeines bürgerliches Gesetzbuch |
| achr | American Convention on Human Rights |
| ag | Advocate General |
| ajil | American Journal of International Law |
| ariel | Austrian Review of International and European Law |
| arsiwa | ilc Articles on Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts |
| Art | Article |
| bgb | Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch |
| bit | Bilateral investment treaty |
| BVerfGE | Bundesverfassungsgerichts |
| bwmc | International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships’ Ballast Water and Sediments |
| byil | British Yearbook of International Law |
| Cambridge lj | Cambridge Law Journal |
| CanYBIL | Canadian Yearbook of International Law |
| cbd | Convention on Biological Diversity |
| cedaw | Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women |
| cfi | Court of First Instance |
| cites | Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora |
| cjeu | Court of Justice of the European Union |
| CoE | Council of Europe |
| cops | Conferences of the Parties |
| crc | Convention on the Rights of the Child |
| ctbt | Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty |
| cup | Cambridge University Press |
| cwc | Chemical Weapons Convention |
| ec | European Community |
| echr | European Convention on Human Rights |
| ECtHR | European Court of Human Rights |
| eea Agreement | Agreement on the European Economic Area |
| eia | Environmental Impact Assessment |
| ejil | European Journal of International Law |
| epil | Encyclopaedia of Public International Law |
| ets | European Treaty Series |
European Union |
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| ewhc | England and Wales High Court |
| gc | Grand Chamber |
| gyil | German Yearbook of International Law |
| hilj | Harvard International Law Journal |
| hrc | Human Rights Committee |
| IACtHR | Inter-American Court of Human Rights |
| Ibid | ibidem |
| icc | International Criminal Court |
| iccpr | International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights |
| icescr | International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights |
| icj | International Court of Justice |
| icj Statute | Statute of the International Court of Justice |
| iclq | International Community Law Review |
| icrw | International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling |
| icsid | International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes |
| iel | International Environmental Law |
| ilc | International Law Commission |
| ildc | International Law in Domestic Courts |
| ilm | International Legal Material |
| ilo | International Labour Organization |
| Int’l & Comp lq | International and Comparative Law Quarterly |
| io | International Organisation |
| itlos | International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea |
| iwc | International Whaling Commission |
| ljil | Leiden Journal of International Law |
| marpol | International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships |
| meas | Multilateral Environmental Agreements |
| mops | Meetings of the Parties |
| mpepil | Max Planck Encyclopaedias of International Law |
| nilr | Netherlands International Law Review |
| NordicJIL | Nordic Journal of International Law |
| nyil | Netherlands Yearbook of International Law |
| oas | Organization of American States |
| ohchr | Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights |
| ospar Convention | Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic |
| oup | Oxford University Press |
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| pca | Permanent Court of Arbitration |
| pcij | Permanent Court of International Justice |
| rbdi | Revue Belge de Droit International |
| RdC | Recueil des Cours de l’Académie de Droit International de la Haye |
| Res | Resolution |
| solas | International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea |
| teu | Treaty of the European Union |
| tftp Interim Agreement | Agreement between the EU and the US on the Processing and Transfer of Financial Messaging Data from the EU to the US for Purposes of the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program |
| tpp | Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement |
| UK | United Kingdom |
| UN | United Nations |
| unclos | United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea |
| unesco | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization |
| unfccc | United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change |
| unga | United Nations General Assembly |
| unts | United Nations Treaty Series |
| US | United States |
| vccr | Vienna Convention on Consular Relations |
| vcdr | Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations |
| vclt | Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties |
| vcltio | Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties between States and International Organizations or between International Organizations |
| who | World Health Organization |
| wto | World Trade Organization |
| yiel | Yearbook of International Environmental Law |
| yilc | Yearbook of the International Law Commission |
| ZaöRV | Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht |