Labour Law: Too Much Reliance on Case Law, Not Enough on Contextual Understanding

In my opinion, our labour law curriculum for Judicial Services is heavily weighted in favour of recalling case laws and statutes, but it overlooks the importance of understanding the socio-economic context in which these laws are framed and applied. What's the point of knowing that a particular section of the ID Act has been interpreted in a certain way by the Supreme Court if you don't understand why the government brought in those laws in the first place? Our law schools should be teaching us to think critically about policy-making, not just to regurgitate case laws like a bunch of memorized lines from a Bollywood script.