The Judicial Innovation Fellowship (JIF) is a fellowship for technology industry professionals to transform justice across state, local, territorial, and tribal courts. Partnering with courts to build critical data infrastructure, simplify processes, and improve usability of court services, this competitive fellowship is a unique opportunity to innovate a core democratic institution.

Our inaugural cohort took place from 2023-24. This successful pilot is commemorated in our final report (forthcoming). To read about how we built the program, please read the JIF Roadmap.

Learning from this experience, we are exploring upstream issues that hinder the court modernization movement generally. To keep up to date with what we’re up to, please share your email with us.

If you have questions, email judicialinnovation@georgetown.edu.

The Judicial Innovation Fellowship is incubated at the Georgetown Institute for Technology Law & Policy. This work is made possible by the New Venture Fund, Schmidt Futures, the Ford Foundation, the State Justice Institute, the Utah Bar Foundation, the Pew Charitable Trusts, and the Fritz Family Foundation.