Reading Room Document

Applicability of Emoluments Clause to Employment of Government Employees by Foreign Public Universities

The Emoluments Clause of the Constitution does not apply in the cases of government employees offered faculty employment by a foreign public university where it can be shown that the university acts independently of the foreign state when making faculty employment decisions. The OLC does not provide release dates for its opinions, so the release date listed is the date on which the opinion was authored. The original opinion is available at www.justice.gov/file/20391/download.

March 1, 1994