The inventory will be computerized, compared to the present system, something between collective memory and guesswork.
The Fifth Amendment makes clear the distinction between collective and individual rights by referring to the rights of each "person".
"Realistically," Professor Miller wrote, "the choice for class members is between collective access to the judicial system or no access at all".
The I.O.C.'s president, Thomas Bach, has emphasized in recent weeks "the difficult decision between collective responsibility and individual justice," suggesting sympathy for Russian athletes with clean histories who are seeking to make it to Rio.
This, they argued, would strike a fair balance between the IOC's stated concerns between collective responsibility and individual justice "so that no truly clean elite Russian athlete is barred from the Olympic Games".
Any new settlement needs to be equitable (similar needs today do not receive equal treatment), to be efficient in terms of value for money, to be financially sustainable, and to strike an appropriate balance between collective and individual responsibility.
As a minister in the Labour governments of the 70s, he walked a tightrope between collective cabinet responsibility and support for the democratisation of the Labour party, expecting at any moment to be sacked.
The familiar boundary between collective grief and personal sadness, which the nation handles well in the rituals of Remembrance day, is better left to individuals to negotiate in their own way.
However, it said Russian athletes could compete in Rio under a neutral flag if a task force approved by the IOC and World Anti-Doping Agency verified they were clean, "thereby striking a fair balance between your stated concerns between collective responsibility and individual justice so that no truly clean elite Russian athlete is barred from the Rio Olympic Games".
Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi, a groundbreaking and wide-ranging scholar of Jewish history whose meditation on the tension between collective memory of a people and the more prosaic factual record of the past influenced a generation of thinkers, died on Tuesday in Manhattan.
