Abbreviations
| AIR Art./art./artt BGE | All India Reporter Article Entscheidungen des Schweizerischen Bundesgerichts (Decisions of the Federal Court of Switzerland) | ||
| BL BLD BVerfG BVerfGE BVerfGG | Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany of 23 May 1949 Bangladesh Legal Decisions Bundesverfassungsgericht (German Federal Constitutional Court) Entscheidungen des BVerfG (Decisions of BVerfG) Bundesverfassungsgerichtsgesetz (Federal Constitutional Court Statute) | ||
| B-VG | Bundesverfassungsgesetz (Austrian Constitution of 1920 as amended in 2016) | ||
| CC CDL | Constitutional Court or Conseil Constitutionnel (France) European Commission for Democracy through Law (“Venice Commission”) | ||
| cf Chap. Cons Const CSM | Conferatur (Latin for: compare) Chapter Conseil Constitutionnel (French Constitutional Court) Conseil Superieur de la Magistrature (France; similar Italy, Spain, Portugal): High Council of the Judiciary | ||
| Czech CHFR | Czech Charter of Fundamental Rights and Liberties of 16 December 1992 as amended until 1998 | ||
| DC | Decisions du Cons Const (France): Decisions of French Constitutional Court | ||
| DDH | Declaration des Droits de l’Homme et du Citoyen 1789: Declaration of the rights of man and citizen | ||
| e.g. ECA ECHR ECJ ed(s) EP et al. | Exempli gratia (Latin for: for example) European Communities Act (UK, 1972) European Convention of Human Rights (1952) European Court of Justice Editor(s) European Parliament Et alia (Latin for: and others) | ||
| et seq. etc. EUR fn. FR. FrC. HB IPE ib. ibid incl. infra. MP No. NZ OSCE par. PM Reichsverf. | Et sequens (Latin for: and the following) Et cetera Euro (currency) Footnote Fundamental Right French Constitution Handbuch Ius Publicum Europaeum, Vols I-V Ibidem, in the same place Including Within Member of Parliament Number New Zealand Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Paragraph Prime Minister Deutsche Reichsverfassung 1871 (Constitution of the German Reich of 1871) | ||
| rev. rf RFDC SC SCR sec. sent. ss supra. TC TEU TFEU UK UKSC UN US SCR US VfGG | Review Refer to Revue Frangaise de Droit Constitutionnel Supreme Court Indian Supreme Court Reports Section Sentence Subsequent Above Tribunal Constitucional: Spanish Constitutional Tribunal Treaty on the European Union of 2009/12/1 Treaty on the Functioning on the European Union of 2009/12/1 United Kingdom United Kingdom Supreme Court United Nations US Supreme Court Reports United States Versus Osterreichisches Verfassungsgerichtsgesetz (Austrian Constitutional Court Statute) | ||
| VfGH VfGHE Vol II Vol III | Verfassungsgerichtshof (Austrian Constitutional Court) Decisions of VfGH Volume II of Writing Constitutions (Fundamental Rights) Volume III of Writing Constitutions (Constitutional Principles) | ||
| Vol. WeimConst ZSE | Volume Weimar Constitution (1919/8/11) Zeitschrift fur Staats- und Europawissenschaften | ||