ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to investigate the functions of law within the authoritarian liberal regime of Turkey. In an attempt to grasp both instrumental and symbolic, or coercive and consensual dimensions of the authoritarian legal phenomena, the chapter also discusses the possibilities of making use of law and courts, both substantially and instrumentally, for resisting the authoritarian law. The legal disciplining of labour is an important aspect of authoritarian neoliberal regimes. Through the case study of the large-scale strikes in the Turkish metal industry sector that took place in 2015, the chapter aims to disentangle the ways in which authoritarian neoliberalism finds expression in law, in which ways it is played out, contested, resisted and subverted.
