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CENTRAL & EASTERN EUROPEAN LEGAL STUDIESThe Central and Eastern European Legal Studies (CEELS) was launched as a periodical publication in 2013. It is appearing twice a year and in the framework of its commitment to linguistic diversity, articles have so far been published in Albanian, Armenian, English, Italian, Lithuanian, Russian, Slovak, and Ukrainian. Albania, Greece, Lithuania, Slovakia, and Ukraine are the countries represented inthe seven articlesincluded in thesecond issue ofthe year 2014 ofthe Central andEastern EuropeanLegal Studies,2/2014. The rst article, coming from Albania, examines the balance between freedom of expression and protection of reputation. The second paper examines the constitutional protection of ownership in Slovakia which had occurred in society at the break from socialism to capitalism. The third article included in this CEELS issue deals withthe theme of the general theory of national security. The author maintains that the general theory of national security represents an essential element of intellectual cultures of the mankind. The next paper is devoted to the pilot friendly settlement in the European Court of Human Rights as a special category of the conciliation procedure, as well asto contemporary problems of execution of decisions of the European Court of Human Rights against Ukraine. Another article discusses the question of whether it is appropriate to establish the age of consent and related issues in the Ukrainian legislation by analyzing the relevant provisions of the Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse of 2007 and the case law of the ECtHR. Prison-privatization programs, facilitated by the international economic downturn, is the subject treated in the next paper: Private prisons are examined in three different European legal systems (English, French and Greek). Finally, a paper deals with the problem of the tax advantages in Lithuanian tax law. Special attention is given to questions of the legal de nition and to the analysis of the content (legal forms) of tax advantages. There are ninearticles in the rstissue of the Centraland EasternEuropean LegalStudies for the year2015 coming fromAustria, Georgia,Germany, Latvia,Lithuania, Slovakia,Turkey andUkraine. The rstarticle is devoted to the issues of formation of limited government in a sovereign Ukraine. The analysis of its experience con rms thatCentral & Eastern European Legal Studies, 2/2014Central and Eastern European Legal Studies, 1/2015PUBLICATIONS140 ACTIVITY REPORT 2016