diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index 5983b0086b..5bece5d7ee 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -76,5 +76,12 @@ repos:
     hooks:
     - id: isort
       types_or: [python]
+  - repo: local
+    hooks:
+    - id: apache-rat
+      name: Check for unapproved licenses
+      language: script
+      pass_filenames: false
+      entry: "./dev/release/run-rat.sh ."
 
 exclude: "^c/vendor/.*"
diff --git a/dev/release/rat_exclude_files.txt b/dev/release/rat_exclude_files.txt
index 40bb06b566..2b1587ee7c 100644
--- a/dev/release/rat_exclude_files.txt
+++ b/dev/release/rat_exclude_files.txt
@@ -2,5 +2,7 @@
 ci/linux-packages/changelog
 ci/linux-packages/*.install
 dev/release/rat_exclude_files.txt
+filtered_rat.txt
 go/adbc/status_string.go
 go/adbc/go.sum
+rat.txt