SEEU featured our USF St. Petersburg Constitution Day Event with Prof. Shasivari -- Presidential Pardons -- on its facebook page.
Here is the text, and the accompanying pictures:
https://www.facebook.com/seeu.edu.mk/posts/2677290602506978
Note: This is NOT an official website of the U.S. Department of State. The views expressed in this blog are my own and do not represent the views of the Fulbright Program or the U.S. Department of State.
SEEU featured our USF St. Petersburg Constitution Day Event with Prof. Shasivari -- Presidential Pardons -- on its facebook page.
Here is the text, and the accompanying pictures:
https://www.facebook.com/seeu.edu.mk/posts/2677290602506978
https://www.seeu.edu.mk/en/information/news-events?id=2133
South East European University (SEEU) shared the news of Professor Shasivari's keynote address for USF St. Petersburg's Constitution Day event about presidential pardons:
Within the collaboration framework of the between the University of South Florida St. Petersburg USA and SEEU-Faculty of Law, on the occasion of marking 17th September - the Anniversary of the US Constitution, Prof. Jeton Shasivari, in front of 40 students, gave an online lecture on the topic “The Pardon Power of the President of North Macedonia as a (Un) Restricted Constitutional Right”.
The lecture was moderated by the American professor of constitutional law, Prof. Judithanne Scourfield McLauchlan, while American students asked many questions, which proves that their interest in the lecture was very high.
Prof. Shasivari addressed constitutional and legal aspects of the presidential pardon in North Macedonia, focusing on the jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court, as well as the possible international legal consequences of the 2016 Presidential Pardon before the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.
For our 2020 Constitution Day celebration, we were honored to have as our Keynote Speaker SEEU Law Professor Dr. Jeton SHASIVARI.
After resolving a technical glitch when getting started, our US Constitutional Law students and guests had the privilege of learning more about the presidential pardon power in the Republic of North Macedonia.
Professor Shasivari explained the constitutional and legal basis for the presidential pardon power: Article 84 of the Constitution of the Republic of North Macedonia, the specialized Law on Pardoning in 1993 with amendments in 2009 and 2016, and the relevant decisions of the Constitutional Court in 2016. We also learned more about the controversial pardons of April 2016 when the President of the Republic of Macedonia Gjorge Ivanov issued 41 pardons (involving 56 people) in one day, that were followed by mass protests.
After the presentation, we had an engaging discussion, comparing and contrasting the presidential pardon power in the US and North Macedonia.
In advance of the presentation, the US students read Professor Besa Arifi's article in the SEEU Law Review:
The President's Right to Issue Prdons article by Prof. Besa Arifi
And students familiarized themselves with the history of presidential pardons in the US. Article II, Section 2, cl. 1 gives the US President the power to pardon federal offenses. (And see Hamilton's Federalist #74 for further explanation of the Framers' justification for the pardon power.)
For more, see
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/article-2/section-2/clause-1/pardons-and-reprieves
https://www.justice.gov/pardon/pardon-information-and-instructions
We are looking forward to observing 2020 US Constitution Day (#233!) with Professor Dr. Jeton Shasivari of the Law Faculty of SEEU
The topic will be "The Pardon Power of the President of North Macedonia, as an (un)limited Constitutional Right"
and will compare to the US context with my students in US Constitutional Law
For the full text of the US Constitution https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript
Today I received the Fulbright Association 2019 Annual Report in the mail.
Wonderful to read about all of the ways that Fulbrighters are staying involved and connected.
It also brought back fond memories of the Fulbright Association Annual meeting, which I attended in the Fall of 2019 (See, for example https://jainmacedonia.blogspot.com/2019/11/fulbright-association-annual-meeting)
Also pictured were our participation in Lobby Days on Capitol Hill:
And Congressman John Lewis! |