Europa Institute

Europa Lectures

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