Lincoln D. Gomez
Attorney at law and author, Aruba. Writing on Aruban and Dutch Caribbean law since 1998, first in books for practitioners and in public since 2007.
I have been writing about Aruban law since 1998. The first books were for practitioners and students: the statutes, annotated, in the languages people actually work in. In 2007 I started doing it in public.
Since then: 319 pieces on the courts, the economy, the environment, and the aircraft register. Thirteen books. In 2026, for the fortieth anniversary of Status Aparte, I founded and co-edited 40 Jaar Status Aparte: Tussen Voortgang en Stilstaan. Four languages, because a jurisdiction that argues in Dutch, lives in Papiamento, trades in English, and neighbors Spanish deserves to be written about in all of them.
Aruba is a small place with complex laws. Aruba law, Kingdom legislation, and counterparties in the Netherlands, Curaçao and the United States, all in a jurisdiction of a hundred thousand people. Most of what goes wrong here goes wrong legally first, and it usually goes wrong in public before anyone writes it down.
I have practiced at the Aruba bar since 1998, in civil litigation, corporate law, aviation, and real estate. That is where the writing comes from. It is not what this site is for. Nothing published here is legal advice; no reading of it creates a lawyer-client relationship, and I am not offering representation through it.
I hold LL.M. degrees in International Tax and Financial Services from Thomas Jefferson School of Law and in Corporate Law from the Universiteit van Aruba, and diplomas from the Wharton School. I co-founded Digicel Aruba, served as President of the Aruba Bar Association, and work to protect Aruba's cultural heritage through the Museums Aruba Foundation.
I write from Oranjestad, and not seldom from 38,000 feet.
Where to start
- The register — everything, newest first, filterable.
- The dossiers — nine standing threads, each read oldest first.
- The archive — the complete chronological index by year.