CAPT Peter P. Pascucci is currently assigned as the Staff Judge Advocate (General Counsel) of U.S. Cyber Command. CAPT Pascucci received his bachelors of arts degree in marine and coastal policy from the University of Rhode Island in 2000 and his juris doctorate from Roger Williams University School of Law in 2003. He received a masters of arts degree, with distinction, in national security and strategic studies from the Naval War College in 2013, and a masters of law degree (LLM), with distinction and dean’s list recognition, in national security law from the Georgetown University Law Center in 2015.

Additionally, he is the 2015 recipient of the Thomas B. Chetwood S.J. prize for academic excellence in national security law at Georgetown.

CAPT Pascucci’s major assignments include: Staff Judge Advocate for U.S. Fleet Cyber Command/Navy Space Command; Special Assistant to the Deputy Judge Advocate General of the Navy and Sensitive Programs Counsel where he advised the Secretary of the Navy and the Chief of Naval Operations on all sensitive activities and special access programs; Executive Officer for Defense Service Office North; Deputy Staff Judge Advocate at U.S. Special Operations Command; Chief of National Security Law for U.S. Cyber Command; Assistant Force/Fleet Judge Advocate to Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Central Command/U.S. Fifth Fleet in Manama, Bahrain; Associate Deputy General Counsel (Intelligence) in the Department of Defense, Office of General Counsel where his portfolio included cyberspace operations and policy, space operations, and special technical operations; Deputy Legal Counsel to the Vice Chief of Naval Operations; Flag Aide to the Judge Advocate General of the Navy; and Staff Judge Advocate for the USS Kearsarge Expeditionary Strike Group deployed to the Sixth, Fifth, and Seventh Fleet areas of responsibility.

CAPT Pascucci is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States, and courts of the State of Rhode Island, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the Court of Appeals of the Armed Forces.

CAPT Pascucci’s publications include:

– Lauren M. Cherry and Peter P. Pascucci, International Law in Cyberspace, in An Anthology: 60 Years of Transformation-National Security Law (Julie J.R. Huygen, Cynthia Ryan, Edgar Gonzalez, & Brandon Gaskew eds., 2023).
– Peter Pascucci & Kurt Sanger, Hays Parks Influence on Cyberspace Operations Capabilities, Articles of War (December 10, 2021).
– Peter Pascucci & Kurt Sanger, Revisiting a Framework on Military Takedowns Against Cyber Criminals, Lawfare (July 2, 2021).
– Peter Pascucci & Kurt Sanger, Using Law to Confront Malign Foreign Influence, The Cipher Brief (April 15, 2021).
– COL Gary P. Corn & CDR Peter P. Pascucci, The Law of Armed Conflict Implications of Covered or Concealed Cyber Operations: Perfidy, Ruses, and the Principle of Passive Distinction, in The Impact of Emerging Technologies on the Law of Armed Conflict, 273 (Eric Talbot Jensen & Ronald T.P. Alcala eds.), 2019.
– Peter Pascucci & Kurt Sanger, Why a Broad Definition of “Violence” in Cyber Conflict is Unwise and Legally Unsound, Just Security (March 8, 2017).
– Peter P. Pascucci, Distinction and Proportionality in Cyberwar: Virtual problems with a Real Solution, 26 Minn. J. Int’l L. 419 (2017).

CAPT Pascucci teaches in his personal capacity and the views he teaches do not necessarily reflect those of the Department of Defense, Department of the Navy, or U.S. Fleet Cyber Command.