Jason Tashea is an Innovation Fellow at the Vanderbilt University Wond’ry and School of Law researching novel court modernization techniques. He is also a consultant at the World Bank focusing on access to justice and technology. He also publishes and speaks internationally on justice-technology issues and edits the weekly Justice Tech Download newsletter. He serves on the Legal Services Corporation’s Emerging Leaders Council andco-hosts LSC’s podcast Talk Justice. Previously, Jason worked as a product manager at an access-to-justice software startup, as an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center, and as a law and technology reporter at the American Bar Association Journal. Jason was selected as a 2018 “Fastcase 50” member and as a Fulbright fellow to Kosovo following law school.Jason Tashea is an Innovation Fellow at the Vanderbilt University Wond’ry and School of Law researching novel court modernization techniques. He is also a consultant at the World Bank focusing on access to justice and technology. He also publishes and speaks internationally on justice-technology issues and edits the weekly Justice Tech Download newsletter. He serves on the Legal Services Corporation’s Emerging Leaders Council andco-hosts LSC’s podcast Talk Justice. Previously, Jason worked as a product manager at an access-to-justice software startup, as an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center, and as a law and technology reporter at the American Bar Association Journal. Jason was selected as a 2018 “Fastcase 50” member and as a Fulbright fellow to Kosovo following law school.
Congress should create a Judicial Innovation Fellowship that brings experienced technologists into courts to improve access to justice.
To overcome the unprecedented backlog of court cases created by the pandemic, courts must be reimagined as digital platforms.