Zechariah Chafee Jr. (December 7 1885 – February 8 1957) was an American Professor of Law judicial philosopher and civil rights advocate. Defending freedom of speech he was described by Senator Joseph McCarthy as dangerous to the United States. Legal scholar Richard Primus called Chafee “possibly the most important First Amendment scholar of the first half of the twentieth century.”
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