 Moreover, it is worth noting that the assumption that inheritance must be based on testamentary wishes is in tension with the point (noted in  section 1.2)  that inheritance is commonly taken to be the core notion of the concept of cultural heritage (for further discussion, see Shelby 2007: 172–176). Thus, skepticism about the possibility of inheritance would seem to undermine the very possibility of cultural heritage, a conclusion that might seem absurd. Of course, one might counter that cultural heritage relies on a different notion of inheritance than the jurisprudential understanding of inheritance most appropriate to cultural property. However, as with the discussion of the “paradox of cultural property” above  (2.3),  this claim appears to rest on assuming a particularly strong understanding of ownership that the concept of cultural property may not require (Carpenter, Katyal, &amp; Riley 2009).