Earl Rivera-Dolera is an International Arbitrator and a multi-jurisdictional Lawyer.

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Earl has been appointed as an arbitrator in cases across various arbitration seats, including Singapore, India, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Hong Kong, among others. These cases involve a wide range of commercial disputes governed by both common and civil law systems. She is listed as an arbitrator with the Singapore International Arbitration Centre, Korean Commercial Arbitration Board, Japan Commercial Arbitration Association, Asian Centre for International Arbitration in Malaysia, HKIAC (Hong Kong), CAAI (Hong Kong/Taiwan), and THAC (Thailand). Additionally, she is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators.

Earl has acted as arbitrator, lead counsel, instructing counsel, tribunal secretary, and expert advisor in arbitration proceedings. Her experience spans arbitral proceedings seated in Asia, Africa, Europe, the United States, and Australia, conducted in a Singapore-based arbitration chamber with prominent international arbitrators under the auspices of ICC, SIAC, LCIA, KLRCA, SCMA, AMTAC, HKIAC, VIAC, ICDR/AAA, BANI, ICSID, and ad hoc arbitrations. These proceedings involve total claims amounting to approximately US$ 7.2 billion. She has participated in over 170 arbitrations under the rules of major arbitral institutions.

 

Earl has also published extensively in the area of international arbitration and is the co-author of the book, “Halsbury’s Laws of Singapore: Arbitration” (2017 and 2020 re-issues) in the Halsbury’s series.
 

Earl holds two master’s degrees: one in international economic law from Stanford University Law School (USA) and another in international business law from the National University of Singapore. At Stanford, Earl was a Salzburg-Cutler Fellow for International Law and a Jean Monnet European Union Law Research Fellow, focusing her research on investment treaty arbitration and intra-European Union BITs.
 

Earl has led teams in conducting investigations involving fraud and embezzlement across various sectors, most notably in the construction industry, addressing issues related to human resources, procurement, bidding, and bribery. She is quadruple-qualified as a solicitor (England and Wales) and an attorney (New York and Texas State, and the Philippines).

Earl is a faculty member at the National Institute for Trial Advocacy in Colorado, USA, and an adjunct lecturer at Stanford University School of Law. She is also a certified information privacy professional for Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation.