The Buyer’s Remedy of Avoidance under the CISG:  Acceptable from a Common Law Perspective?

Tobias Plate*

In this paper, Tobias analyses the provisions in the CISG dealing with the buyer’s right to avoid the contract, concluding that in fact they represent a reasonable compromise between civil and common law backgrounds and generally do justice to the requirements of international trade.

*   LLM Candidate, University of Canterbury, New Zealand; Participant in the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot 1998/99 (University of Muenster).