| BIT | Bilateral Investment Treaty |
| DSB | Dispute Settlement Body (of the WTO) |
| DSU | Understanding on Rules and Procedures Governing the Settlement of Disputes (of the WTO) |
| EC | European Communities (official name of the EU before the WTO until 2009) |
| ECHR | European Convention on Human Rights |
| ECtHR | European Court of Human Rights |
| ECT | Energy Charter Treaty |
| EU | European Union |
| FET | Fair and equitable treatment |
| FTA | Free Trade Agreement |
| GATT | General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade |
| GPA | Agreement on Government Procurement |
| ICA | International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce |
| ICC | International Criminal Court |
| ICCPR | International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights |
| ICJ | International Court of Justice |
| ICJ Rep | International Court of Justice Reports of Judgments, Advisory Opinions and Orders |
| ICS | Investment Court System |
| ICSID | International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes |
| ICTR | International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda |
| ICTY | International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia |
| IIA | International Investment Agreement |
| ILC | International Law Commission |
| ILO | International Labour Organization |
| ISDS | Investor-State Dispute Settlement |
| ITLOS | International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea |
| LCIA | London Court of International Arbitration |
| MERCOSUR | Southern Common Market (Mercado Común del Sur / Mercado Comum do Sul) |
| MIT | Multilateral Investment Treaty |
| MPIA | Multi-Party Interim Arrangement |
| NAFTA | North American Free Trade Agreement |
| OECD | Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development |
| Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic | |
| PCA | Permanent Court of Arbitration |
| PCIJ | Permanent Court of International Justice |
| PITAD | PluriCourts Investment Treaty and Arbitration Database |
| SCC | Stockholm Chamber of Commerce |
| SCM | Subsidies and Countervailing Measures |
| SPS | Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures |
| TIP | Treaty with Investment Provisions |
| TRIPS | Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights |
| UN | United Nations |
| UNCITRAL | United Nations Commission on International Trade Law |
| UNCLOS | United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea |
| UNCTAD | United Nations Conference on Trade and Development |
| UNRIAA | United Nations Reports of International Arbitral Awards |
| UDHR | Universal Declaration of Human Rights |
| UNTS | United Nations Treaty Series |
| VCLT | Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties |
| WTO | World Trade Organization |
Selected Abbreviations
In: The Adjudicatorâs Toolkit and the Force of International Law
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