- Statute of the International Court of Justice
- Charter of the United Nations
- Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes between States and Nationals of Other States
- Draft Articles on Diplomatic Protection, with commentaries, adopted by the International Law Commission at its 58th session (2006)
- United Nations General Assembly Resolution 1514 (XV), Declaration on the granting of independence to colonial countries and people (4 December 1960)
- United Nations General Assembly Resolution 1541 (XV), Principles which should guide Members in determining whether or not an obligation exists to transmit the information called for under Article 73e of the Charter of the United Nations (15 December 1960)
- United Nations General Assembly Resolution 1654 (XVI), The situation with regard to the implementation of the Declaration on the granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples (27 November 1961)
- United Nations General Assembly Resolution 1803 (XVII), Permanent sovereignty over natural resources (14 December 1962)
- United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2625 (XXV), Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations and Cooperation among States in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations (24 October 1970)
- The Island of Palmas Case (or Miangas) (United States of America v. The Netherlands), Permanent Court of Arbitration, Award (4 April 1928)
- Sovereignty over Pedra Branca/Pulau Batu Puteh, Middle Rocks and South Ledge (Malaysia/Singapore), Judgment (23 May 2008)
- Barcelona Traction, Light and Power Company, Limited (Belgium v. Spain), Second Phase Judgment (5 February 1970)
- The Aaland Islands Question (On Jurisdiction), Report of the International Committee of Jurists, League of Nations Official Journal, Special Supplement No. 3 (1920)
- The Aaland Islands Question (On the Merits), Report by the Commission of Rapporteurs, League of Nations Council Document B7 21/68/106 (1921)
- Clipperton Islands Case (Mexico v. France), Judicial Decisions Involving Questions of International Law (28 January 1931), provided by Hein Online
- The Minquiers and Ecrehos Case (France/United Kingdom), ICJ Judgment (17 November 1953)
- Case Concerning the Frontier Dispute (Burkina Faso/Republic of Mali), ICJ Judgment (22 December 1968)
- Western Sahara, ICJ Advisory Opinion (16 October 1975)
- Case Concerning Elettronica Sicula S.P.A. (ELSI) (United States of America v. Italy), ICJ Judgment (20 July 1989)
- Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation, between the United States of America and the Italian Republic (2 February 1948)
- American Manufacturing & Trading, Inc. v. Republic of Zaire, ICSID Case No. ARB/93/1, Award (21 February 1997)
- Case Concerning Kasikili/Sedudu Island (Botswana/Namibia), ICJ Judgment (13 December 1999)
- Mihaly International Corporation v. Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, ICSID Case No. ARB/00/2, Award (15 March 2002)
- Ahmadou Sadio Diallo (Republic of Guinea v. Democratic Republic of the Congo), ICJ Preliminary Objections (24 May 2007)
- Hurst Hannum, Rethinking Self-Determination, 34 Virginia Journal of International Law 1 (1993)
- Lawrence Jahoon Lee, Barcelona Traction in the 21st Century: Revisiting its Customary and Policy Underpinnings 35 Years Later, 42 Stanford Journal of International Law 237 (2006)
- Stephen M. Schwebel, Lecture: The Overwhelming Merits of Bilateral Investment Treaties, 32 Suffolk Transnational Law Review 263 (2009)
