This article examines, from a legal perspective, the nature and extent of UK-US cooperation in the interdiction of the traffic in narcotic drugs by sea. In particular, it addresses the background to, the provisions of and practice under the 13 November 1981 Exchange of Notes between these two...

This paper examines the background to and nature of the central provisions of the 1988 UN Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances designed to promote and facilitate the interdiction of drug shipments by sea. The drafting history of Article 17 of that...