| cahdi | Council of Europe Committee of Legal Advisers on Public International Law |
| ceo | Chief executive officer |
| cic | China Investment Corporation |
| Commentary dcicil | Commentaries to the Draft Conclusions on Identification of Customary International Law |
| cup | Cambridge University Press |
| dcicil | Draft Conclusions on Identification of Customary International Law |
| ecsi | European Convention on State Immunity |
| ect | Energy Charter Treaty |
| ECtHR | European Court of Human Rights |
| eia | United States Energy Information Administration |
| EU | European Union |
| ewhc | England and Wales High Court |
| fsia | Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act |
| gapps | International Working Group of Sovereign Wealth Funds’s Generally Accepted Principles and Practices |
| gdp | Gross domestic product |
| gic | Government of Singapore Investment Corporation |
| hksar | Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China |
| hr | United States House of Representatives |
| icj | International Court of Justice |
| icsid | International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes |
| ila | International Law Association |
| ilc | International Law Commission |
| ilc Commentary | Draft articles on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Property, with Commentaries |
| ilr | International Law Reports |
| imf | International Monetary Fund |
| iwg | International Working Group of Sovereign Wealth Funds |
| jsc | Joint-stock company |
| kenfo | German Nuclear Waste Management Fund |
| kia | Kuwait Investment Authority |
| lfico | Libyan Foreign Investment Company |
| lia | Libyan Investment Authority |
Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law |
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| nbk | National Bank of Kazakhstan |
| nfrk | National Fund of the Republic of Kazakhstan |
| nfrk tma | Agreement on Trust Management of the National Fund of the Republic of Kazakhstan |
| öbag | Die Österreichische Beteiligungs ag |
| oecd | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
| opswf | One Planet Sovereign Wealth Funds |
| oup | Oxford University Press |
| pca | Permanent Court of Arbitration |
| ppf | Public Pension Fund |
| prc | People’s Republic of China |
| qil | Questions of International Law |
| sc | Supreme Court of the United States |
| scc | Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce |
| sia | State Immunity Act |
| soe | State-Owned Enterprise |
| swf | Sovereign Wealth Fund |
| RdC | Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law |
| uae | United Arab Emirates |
| UK | United Kingdom |
| UN | United Nations |
| uncsi | United Nations Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Property |
| unga | United Nations General Assembly |
| unsc | United Nations Security Council |
| unts | United Nations Treaty Series |
| US | United States of America |
| usd | United States dollar |