Socio-Economic rights are widely recognized and protected both at national and supranational level. However the effectiveness of such recognition is still debated. The panel aims to address the current challenges in socio-economic rights protection in different countries. Karen Kong‘s paper analyses the Hong Kong‘s jurisprudential development in adjudicating social rights, looking also at the dynamics between the courts and other branches of the government in tackling social rights issues. Surabhi Chopra‘s paper examines how judiciaries in the Philippines and Indonesia navigated the challenge of reviewing socio-economic rights. Mariana Canotilho and Antonia Baraggia‘s papers are focused on socio-econocomic rights protection in Europe during and after the economic crisis. Both papers highlight the peculiarity of the European case, in terms of inter-constitutionality (Canotilho) and of institutional interdependence (Baraggia).