Simmons, Jannace & Stagg

The United Nations began its relationship with GLIN in 1996 at the initiative of Roy Lee, former Director of the Codification Division of the UN Office of Legal Affairs, and has since been contributing its legal opinions, which are published in the United Nations Juridical Yearbook and included in the "legal literature" category of the GLIN database. These opinions cover a wide range of subjects, such as peacekeeping issues, privileges and immunities, legal aspects of political questions, as well as commercial and financial matters. Simmons, Jannace & Stagg

Once the Codification Division began submitting UN legal opinions, the Head Librarian of the Dag Hammarskjold Library was appointed as the United Nations focal point for GLIN. UN library staff members prepare the required summaries of the legal opinions, select the subject terms, and input the summaries and full texts into the GLIN database. The Codification Division reviews the summaries to ensure legal integrity. Abstracts and full texts have been entered for the period 1991-1997, and efforts are underway in working retrospectively with the preparation of the 1990 legal opinions. GLIN currently offers the only online index available for the UN published legal opinions.