| Vincenzo Arangio-Ruiz | |
| Birth Date: | 1884 |
| Birth Place: | Naples |
| Death Date: | 1964 |
| Death Place: | Rome |
| Nationality: | Italian |
| Occupation: | Roman Law scholar |
Vincenzo Arangio-Ruiz (Naples 1884 - Rome 1964) was a distinguished Italian jurist and Roman Law scholar, who also held the post of Minister of Justice and Minister of Education. Among his most famous works on Roman Law are: Storia del diritto romano (1937) and, Istituzioni di diritto romano (1957).[1]
Arangio-Ruiz was the minister of justice in the government of Ivanoe Bonomi and Ferruccio Parri. He held the post from June 1944 to December 1945.[2]
He was president of the National Union for the Fight against Illiteracy and general president of the National Corps of Young Italian Explorers (CNGEI) from 1954 to 1962.[3]
On April 16, 1956, he became a member of the Turin Academy of Sciences.[4]
He died in 1964, at the age of 79, of lung disease.[5]