This dissertation investigates the role of the law in affording the conditions of possibility for exploitation to install and reproduce itself in the context of contemporary capitalism. It engages with the dialectical incompossibility of some of the key normative assumptions embedded in the law and the economy vis-à-vis their phenomenological consequences. With support from Niklas Luhmann’s systems theory, the dissertation relies on two main examples – patents on essential medicines and labour exploitation – to examine the tension between expropriation and accumulation. It advances the novel concept of “ablegality” as a register for the remainder that every phenomenological-hermeneutic operation will inevitably generate as the potentiality that accompanies all phenomenological reduction. The principal contribution made through this dissertation lies in articulating the role of the invisibilised side of legal operations as drivers for exploitation and, ultimately, for injustice to manifest legally.