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
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