| cacj | Central American Court of Justice |
| eac | Extraordinary African Chambers |
| eccc | Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia |
| ECtHR | European Court of Human Rights |
| eecc | Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission |
| IACtHR | Inter-American Court of Human Rights |
| icc | International Criminal Court |
| icj | International Court of Justice |
| ictr | International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda |
| icty | International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia |
| ilc | International Law Commission |
| imt | International Military Tribunal |
| mict | International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals |
| pcij | Permanent Court of International Justice |
| scsl | Special Court for Sierra Leone |
| stl | Special Tribunal for Lebanon |
| UN | United Nations |
| unga | United Nations General Assembly |
| unsc | United Nations Security Council |
| ajil | American Journal of International Law |
| cup | Cambridge University Press |
| ejil | European Journal of International Law |
| iclq | International and Comparative Law Quarterly |
| ilm | International Legal Materials |
| ilr | International Law Reports |
| jicj | Journal of International Criminal Justice |
| lrtwc | Law Reports of Trials of War Criminals |
| oup | Oxford University Press |
| riaa | Reports of International Arbitral Awards |
| YbILC | Yearbook of the International Law Commission |