- Statute of the International Court of Justice
- Charter of the United Nations
- Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties
- Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War
- Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War
- Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions
- Protocol II to the Geneva Conventions
- Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- U.N. General Assembly Resolution 49/60 (1994)
- U.N. General Assembly Resolution 59/191 (2004)
- U.N. Security Council Resolution 1368 (2001)
- Meeting Record Associated with S.C. Resolution 1368 (2001)
- U.N. Security Council Resolution 1373 (2001)
- Meeting Record Associated with S.C. Resolution 1373 (2001)
- U.N. Security Council Resolution 1526 (2004)
- Meeting Record Associated with S.C. Resolution 1526 (2004)
- U.N. Security Council Resolution 1566 (2004)
- Meeting Record Associated with S.C. Resolution 1566 (2004)
- U.N. Security Council Resolution 1617 (2005)
- Meeting Record Associated with S.C.Resolution 1617 (2005)
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- Democratic Republic of the Congo v. Belgium, Arrest Warrant of 11 April 2000, International Court of Justice (February 14, 2002)
- The Israel Wall Opinion, Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Advisory Opinion, International Court of Justice (July 9, 2004)
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- Prosecutor v. Nikolic, Case No. IT-94-2-AR73 , Decision on Interlocutory Appeal Concerning Legality of Arrest, ICTY Appeals Chamber (June 5, 2003)
- Abella v. Argentina, Case No. 11.137, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (November 18, 1997)
- United States v. Alstoetter (The Justice Cases), Nuremberg Tribunal (1948)
- Pinochet Case, Regina v. Bartle and others ex parte Pinochet Ugarte , Regina v. Evans and others ex parte Pinochet Ugarte (No 3), United Kingdom House of Lords (March 24, 1999)
- Rasul v. Bush, United States Supreme Court , 542 U.S. 466, 124 S.Ct. 2686 (June 28, 2004)
- Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, United States Supreme Court, 126 S. Ct. 2749 (June 29, 2006)
- Draft Comprehensive Convention against International Terrorism, UN Doc. A/59/894. App. II (12 Aug. 2005)
- Michael Scharf, Defining Terrorism as the Peacetime Equivalent of War Crimes: Problems and Prospects, 36 Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law 359 (2004)
- Leila Sadat, Extraordinary Rendition, Torture, and Other Nightmares from the War on Terror, 75 George Washington Law Review 1200 (2007)
- Jordan Paust, Executive Plans and Authorizations to Violate International Law Concerning Treatment and Interrogation of Detainees, 43 Columbia Journal of Transnational Law 811 (2005)
