Deimantė Rimkutė

Short Bio

Deimantė Rimkutė is a joint PhD researcher at Ghent University and Vilnius University. At Ghent University, she is part of the Law & Technology research group within the Department of Interdisciplinary Study of Law, Private Law and Business Law. At Vilnius University, she is affiliated with the Department of Private Law. There, she also teaches various courses on civil law. 

Deimantė’s research focuses on EU legislation on AI, particularly the AI Act and the Product Liability Directive. She is interested in the objectives underpinning these laws. Her work begins with the observation that both instruments pursue multiple goals, which can lead to interpretative tensions. This becomes especially challenging because these laws are part of EU law, where teleological (purpose-based) interpretation plays a central role. In her dissertation, she not only examines these goals but also analyses how they are reflected in specific legal provisions and how this can help resolve interpretative conflicts. To achieve this, she uses philosophical method to enrich doctrinal legal analysis, drawing on legal theory to explain the goals of the laws. 

Deimantė holds a master’s degree in law from Vilnius University, with one semester spent at Ghent University. She graduated first in her class in the business law specialisation and received three first-place awards for her master’s thesis, including the Supreme Court’s award. Before fully committing to academia, she clerked at the Court of Appeal of Lithuania and completed a five-month traineeship at the Court of Justice of the European Union, where she served in Advocate General Medina’s Cabinet. She has also undertaken research stays at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, the European University Institute (EUI), and Maastricht University.