The judges’ terms for the International Court of Human Rights and the Regional Courts shall be 6 years. Judges may serve up to three terms. Each judge shall have four law clerks, selected by the judge, with at least two of the four coming from countries other than the country that nominated the judge.
Turnover is important. It provide fresh thinking and new opportunities for people to share in the act of being a judge committed to IBOR. 18 years is long enough to leave a body of thinking, with others, and then step aside.