José Enrique Arrarás

José Enrique Arrarás Mir (born 25 September 1937) is a Puerto Rican politician and former member of the Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico.

Arrarás was born in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. He obtained his primary and secondary education at Immaculate Conception Academy in Mayagüez and Mercersburg Academy in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania.

Arrarás is great-great-grand-nephew of Pedro Gerónimo Goyco (), and a third-cousin of Charytín Goyco.

He obtained a B.A. in Public and International Affairs (Magna Cum Laude) at Princeton University in 1959. As a Fulbright Scholar to the United Kingdom, he did post-graduate work in political, economic and social problems of underdeveloped countries at Victoria University of Manchester as well as Oxford University.

Back in Puerto Rico, he obtained his L.L.B. law degree (Magna Cum Laude and Valedictorian) at the University of Puerto Rico in 1963, received his Doctor in Civil Law (Magna Cum Laude) from the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain in 1971.

He also holds a Doctorate Honoris Causa from World University.

Arrarás began serving UPR Chancellor Jaime Benítez as his special assistant in 1962, even before graduating from law school. He began teaching law at the University of Puerto Rico School of Law shortly after obtaining his law degree in 1963, while remaining the Chancellor's trusted aide until 1964, when he began a two-year stint as the UPR Río Piedras Campus Dean of Administration and Acting Chancellor. As Benítez moved on to become the institution's first system-wide President, Arrarás served as the first Chancellor of the University of Puerto Rico's Mayagüez Campus for over 5 years, from 1966 to 1971.

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