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). 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. 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. On April 16, 1956, he became a member of the Turin Academy of Sciences. He died in 1964, at the age of 79, of lung disease. Source: Wikipedia (en)