Mr. drs. Gerard Vergouw studied Dutch law at the Catholic University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands and International law at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands. Vergouw practiced law as an attorney from 1998 until 2007 in the Netherlands and Aruba. He worked in Immigration law, Criminal law and Family law. In 2000, Vergouw published the article Cultural offences in the Netherlands in Ars Aequi, a renowned Dutch law magazine. Interviews on national television and radio concerning this subject followed. In 2002 Vergouw took a break as an attorney and went to Nicaragua to teach International law at the University of Granada.