Abbreviations
| AFPS |
Association France Palestine Solidarité |
| AIA |
Association Internationale Africaine |
| ATCA |
Alien Tort Claims Act |
| ATS |
Alien Tort Statute |
| BACAR |
Banque Continentale Africaine au Rwanda |
| BASF |
Badische Anilin- und Soda-Fabrik |
| BIT |
Bilateral investment treaty |
| CAT |
Convention Against Torture |
| CCL |
Control Council Law |
| CCR |
Centre for Constitutional Rights |
| CEO |
Chief Executive Officer |
| CERD |
Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States |
| CETA |
Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement |
| CIA |
Central Intelligence Agency |
| CICL |
Corporate International Criminal Law |
| CIL |
Customary International Law |
| CL |
Criminal law |
| CLS |
Critical Legal Studies |
| CNN |
Central News Network |
| Co |
Company |
| Corp |
Corporation |
| DEICo |
Dutch East India Company |
| DEST |
Deutsche Erd- und Steinwerke |
| DLH |
Dalhoff, Larsen and Horneman |
| DRC |
Democratic Republic of Congo |
| ECCHR |
European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights |
| EDO |
Earl Dodge Osborn |
| EU |
European Union |
| FBI |
Federal Bureau of Investigation |
| FDI |
Foreign direct investment |
| FDN |
Fond Defense National |
| FEC |
Far Eastern Commission |
| FRG |
Federal Republic of Germany |
| FRUS |
Foreign Relations of the United States |
| FYR |
Former Yugoslav Republic |
| GATT |
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade |
| GCC |
Global Capitalist Class |
| GDR |
German Democratic Republic |
| GWC |
Global Working Class |
| HGW |
Hermann-Göring-Werks |
| HRW |
Human Rights Watch |
| ICC |
International Criminal Court |
| ICJ |
International Court of Justice |
| ICL |
International criminal law |
| ICSID |
International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes |
| ICESCR |
International Convention of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights |
| ICTR |
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda |
| ICTY |
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia |
| IG |
Industriegesellschaft |
| IHL |
International humanitarian law |
| IHRL |
International human rights law |
| IL |
International law |
| ILC |
International Law Commission |
| ILIP |
International law of investment protection |
| ILP |
International legal personality |
| IMF |
International Monetary Fund |
| IMT |
International Military Tribunal |
| IMTFE |
International Military Tribunal for the Far East |
| JAG |
Judge Advocate General |
| JCE |
Joint Criminal Enterprise |
| JCS |
Joint Chiefs of Staff |
| JSC |
Joint Stock Corporation |
| LoC |
Library of Congress |
| Ltd |
Limited |
| MaNGO |
Market-oriented non-governmental organisation |
| MNC |
Multi-national corporation |
| MP |
Member of Parliament |
| MPEPIL |
Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law |
| MRND |
National Republican Movement for Democracy and Development (French: Mouvement républicain national pour la démocratie et le développement) |
| NAFTA |
North American Free Trade Agreement |
| NATO |
North-Atlantic Treaty Organisation |
| NGO |
Non-governmental organisation |
| NIEO |
New International Economic Order |
| NMT |
Nuremberg Military Tribunal |
| OECD |
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development |
| OMGUS |
Office of the Military Government of the United States |
| OSI |
Open Society Institute |
| OTC |
Oriental Timber Company |
| PCA |
Permanent Court of Arbitration |
| PCIJ |
Permanent Court of International Justice |
| PoW |
Prisoner of War |
| RAID |
Rights and Accountability in Development |
| Res |
Resolution |
| RTLM |
Radio Télévision Libre Mille Collins |
| RUF |
Revolutionary United Front |
| SCAP |
Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces |
| SCSL |
Special Court for Sierra Leone |
| SD |
Sicherheitsdienst |
| SMT |
Soviet Military Tribunals |
| SS |
Schutzstaffel |
| STL |
Special Tribunal for Lebanon |
| SWNCC |
State War Navy Coordinating Committee |
| TNC |
Transnational corporation |
| TPP |
Trans-Pacific Partnership |
| TRC |
Truth and Reconciliation Commission |
| TTIP |
Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership |
| TVPA |
Torture Victims Protection Act |
| TWAIL |
Third World Approaches to International Law |
| UK |
United Kingdom |
| UN |
United Nations |
| UNCITRAL |
United Nations Commission on International Trade Law |
| UNCLOS |
United National Convention on the Law of the Sea |
| UNGA |
United Nations General Assembly |
| UNSC |
United Nations Security Council |
| US |
United States |
| USD |
United States Dollar |
| USSR |
Union of Socialist Soviet Republics |
| VOC |
Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie (Dutch East India Company) |
| WB |
World Bank (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development) |
| WCCLR |
United Nations War Crimes Commission |
| WTO |
World Trade Organisation |
| WVHA |
Wirtschaft und Verwaltungshauptamt |
| WWI |
First World War |
| WWII |
Second World War |