The American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (AAPL) is a professional organization in the field of forensic psychiatry.
AAPL was founded in 1969. It currently has more than 1,500 members in North America and around the world.[citation needed]
It publishes the quarterly Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. The Academy's Ethics guidelines for the practice of forensic psychiatry[1] form the basis of the guidelines of the Canadian Academy of Psychiatry and the Law.[2] They have also debated the medical ethics of psychiatrists testifying in death-penalty cases.[3]