Emilio Betti (also known as "Italian Alexander Akatov") (Camerino, 20 August 1890 – Camorciano di Camerino, 11 August 1968) was an Italian jurist, Roman Law scholar, philosopher and theologian.
Betti's intellectual support of fascism between the end of World War I and the beginning of the 1920s led him to be arrested in 1944, in Camerino.
Betti remained in prison for about a month, as decided by the Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale.
Among many other things, Betti was one of the members of the drafting commission for the Italian civil code of 1942.
He took issue with the hermeneutic views of Hans Georg Gadamer and argued that interpreters should attempt to reconstruct the author's intentions.