Abstract
The subject of corporate governance is among the most discussed topics in the business world today. In Libya, and since the beginning of the year 2000, and in order to diversify national income sources of the economy, the Libyan government adopted a new economic vision based on the gradual abandonment of the socialist economy that had been in place for thirty years and the liberation of the Libyan economy from the monopoly of the state’s public sector. To accomplish this ideological transformation, the Libyan state had to develop its legal system to keep pace with the rules governing the global economy, and enhance the competitiveness of the Libyan economy, and attract foreign investments. Among those laws, Commercial Activity Law, the Libyan Capital Market Law and the Good Governance Regulation. In this thesis, and by drawing on the French experience in corporate governance,