The following resources for academic publications are useful in conducting a preemption check as well as researching your paper.
Online resources are often the most effective for finding recent journal articles. You can use Lexis or Westlaw to search for and retrieve the full text of many, but not all, law journals. For more comprehensive coverage of interdisciplinary education topics published in legal and non-legal journals, you can use online indexes to get citations and often full text for articles across all legal and non-legal journals available through the Library.
This is a non-comprehensive list of journals that focus on both law and education issues.