First held in 2013, the Europa Lecture is an annual lecture organised by the Europa Institute of Leiden Law School. It provides leading thinkers, scholars and politicians with a platform to share their views on questions of European integration with the academic community and wider public.

Previous speakers (in chronological order):

• Radosław Sikorski, former Minister of Foreign Affairs in Poland
• Alexander Italianer, Secretary-General of the European Commission
• Herman Van Rompuy, former President of the European Council
• Petro Poroshenko, President of Ukraine
• Jonathan Mance, Lord Justice at the UK Supreme Court
• Margrethe Vestager, European Commissioner for Competition
• Jeroen Dijsselbloem, former President of the Eurogroup
• Heinz Fischer, former President of Austria
• Judith Sargentini, Member of the European Parliament  
• Corinna Wissels, State Councillor at the Administrative Jurisdiction Division of the Dutch Council of State, deputy justice of the Dutch Trade and Industry Appeals Tribunal and member of the EU-UK Withdrawal Agreement arbitration panel
• Tamara Ćapeta Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union
• Iyiola Solanke, Jacques Delors Professor in EU Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Oxford and Fellow of Somerville College