Herzliches Wilkommen! - Welcome!

I am Elia Birtles Clarke and I am currently (as of August 2026) on my way towards qualifying as a barrister. Anyone who knows anything about studying law and qualifying will know the route to barrister qualification is an absolute trial by fire. But having learned German throughout secondary school and then deciding to study it at university, it seems at this point I like doing things that are objectively very difficult. 

This website is for keeping people up to date on what I've been up to career-wise, if you want to learn more about my hobbies and interests, my neocities page may be more up your street. I actually coded that one as well, this website was made using IONOS's website editor. 

Click through to About for an overview of my progress so far, and to Substack to read my blog, From Learning to Learned. I recently dissected Count Binface's promise to nationalise Adele, which you can read here.