TLR MOUS

The Texas Law Review Manual on Usage & Style is a pocket-sized guide to style and usage for legal writing—a convenient and accessible reference tool used by many lawyers and law students. Called MoUS for short, it contains rules on topics including:

punctuation
capitalization
numbers and symbols
italicization
grammar
word choice
spelling
quotations
composition
editing

The MoUS is currently available in its tenth edition through this online order form (opens in new window).

Alternatively, you may contact Paul Goldman with the UT Law Publications Office to order copies of the MoUS:

Phone: (512) 232-1149
Fax: (512) 471-6988
publications@mail.law.utexas.edu

The Tenth Edition of the MoUS brings you the traditional utility of our pocket-sized usage and style guide for legal writing, now with clearer language, simpler organization, a more intuitive layout, and an improved index.

The Table of Contents for the Tenth Edition can be previewed here. (PDF)