Kinch J. Hoekstra is an American legal scholar and academic whose work concerns the history of political, moral, and legal thought.

[3][1] Hoekstra attended Deep Springs College, later transferring to Brown University.

[3] Hoekstra has taught at the University of California, Berkeley since 2008.

In 2017, he was the Carlyle Lecturer in the History of Political Thought at the University of Oxford and Visiting Professorial Fellow at Nuffield College.

[2] Hoekstra was a trustee of Deep Springs College.