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    The untold story of the first Italian-Turinese female lawyer: reviewing Netflix’s The Law According to Lidia Poet

    Menis, Susanna (2023) The untold story of the first Italian-Turinese female lawyer: reviewing Netflix’s The Law According to Lidia Poet. Law and Humanities , ISSN 1752-1483.

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    Abstract

    The Netflix nineteenth-century period drama The Law According to Lidia Poet presents the adventures of a young Italian law graduate in her pursuit of solving murder cases. Lidia Poet is not a fictional character, but very little is known about her journey to become a lawyer- and the series only adds a little to this knowledge. This review has several aims. First, it will reconsider the implications of reel history. Second, it will add some context to Netflix’s introduction of Lidia Poet and compare her experiences accessing the legal profession with her English colleagues, such as Bertha Cave and Gwyneth Bebb. Attention will be paid to the courts’ rejections of their appeals.

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    Item Type: Article
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Business and Law > Birkbeck Law School
    Depositing User: Susy Menis
    Date Deposited: 10 Jul 2023 15:05
    Last Modified: 31 Oct 2023 14:05
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/51552

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